{"id":34136,"date":"2018-12-11T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34136"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:00:05","slug":"comey-stakes-his-anti-trump-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34136","title":{"rendered":"Comey stakes his anti-Trump claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gettyimages-501585834.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34137\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gettyimages-501585834-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gettyimages-501585834-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gettyimages-501585834-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gettyimages-501585834-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no big surprise, but it still is a bit jarring to hear this statement from the former director of the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>James Comey, whom Donald J. Trump fired a year ago for reasons that still baffle me, now says Americans should do all they can do to remove the president from office in 2020. Americans should use &#8220;every breath we have&#8221; to that end, according to Comey.<\/p>\n<p>Comey got canned while he was in the middle of investigating whether Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russian operatives who had interfered in our campaign. Then he declined to give the president some kind of idiotic &#8220;loyalty pledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump wouldn&#8217;t have it, so he fired Comey. He notified the FBI director by tweet. Great, eh? Classy, yes?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/comey-says-americans-should-use-every-breath-we-have-to-get-rid-of-trump-in-2020\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6j&amp;linkId=60815674\">Comey already has declared<\/a> his displeasure with the president on a number of levels. He contends that Trump has no moral compass; he has no external reference points to guide his thoughts; he acts on impulse.<\/p>\n<p>So his stated desire that Americans should spare no effort to defeat Trump in 2020 is no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Trump has managed to politicize damn near every function of the executive branch of government and has denigrated law enforcement at the highest levels, Comey&#8217;s outburst remains a bit a jolt to the system.<\/p>\n<p>This is no surprise, either: I agree wholeheartedly with him. Thus, I am going to do my part.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no big surprise, but it still is a bit jarring to hear this statement from the former director of the FBI. James Comey, whom Donald J. Trump fired a year ago for reasons that still baffle me, now says Americans should do all they can do to remove the president from office in 2020. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comey stakes his anti-Trump claim<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7225,1424,1693,6242,7093],"class_list":["post-34136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-james-comey","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136","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=34136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34138,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136\/revisions\/34138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}