{"id":37296,"date":"2019-06-02T03:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T03:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37296"},"modified":"2019-06-02T03:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T03:21:20","slug":"trump-changes-rules-of-political-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37296","title":{"rendered":"Trump changes rules of political engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23RobertMueller%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Some of the news shows and their pundits I&#8217;ve been watching lately are pondering the question: What if Barack Obama had done this?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What if the former president had said he trusts North Korean dictator\/tyrant\/madman Kim Jong Un to do the right thing?<\/li>\n<li>What if he had failed to show up at Arlington National Cemetery to honor our war dead on Memorial Day?<\/li>\n<li>What if Obama had failed to attend a ceremony at a cemetery in France to honor our fallen heroes in World War II, citing a heavy rainfall as the reason?<\/li>\n<li>What if Obama took up for the Russian president and accepted his phony denial that his government interfered in our electoral process?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republicans in both congressional chambers would be filing impeachment proceedings in a heartbeat. Oh, sure, Democrats would resist.<\/p>\n<p>I ask the question because of Republican resistance to at least launching an &#8220;inquiry&#8221; into whether a GOP president has obstructed justice. Donald Trump likely committed some sort of crime by seeking to block a Justice Department probe into alleged collusion with Russians who attacked our election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are split. Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to wait; some of her more fervent partisans want to launch impeachment hearings now. Republicans, meanwhile, are seeking to undermine the findings of the former special counsel.<\/p>\n<p>What if President Obama had done any of this?\u00a0 I shudder to think what might be the consequence.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23RobertMueller%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the news shows and their pundits I&#8217;ve been watching lately are pondering the question: What if Barack Obama had done this? What if the former president had said he trusts North Korean dictator\/tyrant\/madman Kim Jong Un to do the right thing? What if he had failed to show up at Arlington National Cemetery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump changes rules of political engagement<\/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":[540,1424,7146,7017],"class_list":["post-37296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-obstruction-of-justice","tag-russian-collusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296","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=37296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37297,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296\/revisions\/37297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}