{"id":33705,"date":"2018-11-21T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33705"},"modified":"2018-11-21T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:50:03","slug":"hypocrisy-is-flourishing-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33705","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy is flourishing in the White House!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s just call him the Hypocrite in Chief.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump has been caught in yet another example of bald-faced, categorical and unqualified hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

His daughter Ivanka has been caught using her personal e-mail account to transmit messages pertaining to government business. Was any of it classified? Was she able to send messages that compromised our national security? Oh, probably not.<\/p>\n

But the point is this: Daddy Trump spent two whole years telling the world that in his view Hillary Clinton committed “several felonies” while using her personal e-mail while she was secretary of state. He led chants of “Lock her up!” at campaign rallies.<\/p>\n

Now his older daughter is caught doing essentially the same thing. His response? Pfftt!<\/em> Not parallel, he says.<\/p>\n

Moreover, he called Clinton “stupid” for not knowing the rules. Was all of that lost on Ivanka, who now says she didn’t know the rules about e-mail use when she took her post as a senior adviser to her father?<\/p>\n

Remember, too, how he criticized President Obama for playing too much golf? How he — Trump — wouldn’t have time to play golf, that he’ll be too busy “making America great again”?<\/p>\n

He’s turned Obama into a weekend duffer. This president, the guy who ridiculed his predecessor unjustly, has lapped the field — and then some! — with his golf outings.<\/p>\n

I do not begrudge the golf per se. I’ve said all along that presidents are never off the clock; they remain in constant contact with their key aides, advisers and national security team.<\/p>\n

I do<\/em> begrudge the golf only because of Trump’s hypocrisy on that matter — and on so many others.<\/p>\n

Simply astonishing.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s just call him the Hypocrite in Chief. Donald J. Trump has been caught in yet another example of bald-faced, categorical and unqualified hypocrisy. His daughter Ivanka has been caught using her personal e-mail account to transmit messages pertaining to government business. Was any of it classified? Was she able to send messages that compromised … Continue reading Hypocrisy is flourishing in the White House!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,1424,1574,1937,2139,5554,7419],"class_list":["post-33705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-emails","tag-golf","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-ivanka-trump","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33706,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33705\/revisions\/33706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}