{"id":35706,"date":"2019-02-27T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35706"},"modified":"2019-02-27T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:52:00","slug":"how-do-these-politicians-get-away-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35706","title":{"rendered":"How do these politicians get away with this?"},"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\/2019\/02\/cohenhearing_022719gn_lead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35707\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cohenhearing_022719gn_lead-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cohenhearing_022719gn_lead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cohenhearing_022719gn_lead.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get a load of this picture, taken today at the House Government Oversight Committee grilling of Michael Cohen, the former friend\/fixer\/lawyer for Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Committee Republicans are attacking Cohen as a liar, a <em>convicted<\/em> liar at that, a guy who&#8217;s headed for the slammer in the very near future. They don&#8217;t believe him when he says he&#8217;s telling &#8217;em the truth about what he knows about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What astounds me to the max is how these individuals can take themselves seriously, given that their party&#8217;s chieftain, the president of the United States, is arguably the most egregious liar ever to take up residence in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump lies to our faces. He lies when he doesn&#8217;t have to lie. He says things he must <em>know<\/em> are false, but he says them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>My amazement stems from Republicans&#8217; inability or unwillingness to recognize what the president has done while seeking the nation&#8217;s highest office and while has served in it.<\/p>\n<p>He has lied repeatedly, gratuitously and without regard for the consequences of what his lying has done.<\/p>\n<p>And so now they are attacking Michael Cohen, who has acknowledged his guilt as a convicted felon, an admitted perjurer, as a liar? Give . . . me . . . a . . . break!<\/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>Get a load of this picture, taken today at the House Government Oversight Committee grilling of Michael Cohen, the former friend\/fixer\/lawyer for Donald J. Trump. Committee Republicans are attacking Cohen as a liar, a convicted liar at that, a guy who&#8217;s headed for the slammer in the very near future. They don&#8217;t believe him when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do these politicians get away with this?<\/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":[1424,2175,2179,2185,7694,7525],"class_list":["post-35706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-democrats","tag-house-gop","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-michael-cohen","tag-trumps-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706","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=35706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35708,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706\/revisions\/35708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}