{"id":37689,"date":"2019-06-27T03:32:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37689"},"modified":"2019-06-27T03:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:32:12","slug":"yep-the-biggest-threat-to-the-nation-is-its-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37689","title":{"rendered":"Yep, the biggest threat to the nation is its president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JayInslee%20%23climatechange%20%23Iran%20%23Russia%20%23China&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gettyimages-1147718481_wide-b0a304c56fc9d51357078ae578e37092c8ce7044-s800-c85.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37311\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gettyimages-1147718481_wide-b0a304c56fc9d51357078ae578e37092c8ce7044-s800-c85-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gettyimages-1147718481_wide-b0a304c56fc9d51357078ae578e37092c8ce7044-s800-c85-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gettyimages-1147718481_wide-b0a304c56fc9d51357078ae578e37092c8ce7044-s800-c85-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gettyimages-1147718481_wide-b0a304c56fc9d51357078ae578e37092c8ce7044-s800-c85.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Gov. Jay Inslee drew the biggest round of cheers tonight with what might have come off as a quip, but which &#8212; the more I think about it &#8212; now sounds like the brutal truth.<\/p>\n<p>He and the nine other Democratic presidential candidates gathered on the debate stage in Miami were asked to name the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States: Inslee said it is <em>Donald John Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not Russia. Nor the People&#8217;s Republic of China. Or Iran. Or terrorist organizations. Or even climate change, which happens to be Inslee&#8217;s signature campaign issue.<\/p>\n<p>He said the biggest threat is the president of the United States of America. I agree with him.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is systematically destroying our alliances with Europe, with Asia, with Latin America. He&#8217;s gone after Australia and Canada, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has isolated the nation from the rest of a shrinking world. He cozies up to tyrants &#8212; Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin being the most notable. He challenges the nation&#8217;s intelligence network&#8217;s findings. He makes foreign and domestic policy pronouncements via Twitter, without advising his senior policy\u00a0 advisers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has burned through two national security advisers. He is talking openly about possible war with Iran <em>without a defense secretary on board.\u00a0<\/em>He is reportedly losing patience with his third White House chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Gov. Inslee was right. Donald Trump has become the greatest existential threat to the very nation he was elected to govern.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JayInslee%20%23climatechange%20%23Iran%20%23Russia%20%23China&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Gov. Jay Inslee drew the biggest round of cheers tonight with what might have come off as a quip, but which &#8212; the more I think about it &#8212; now sounds like the brutal truth. He and the nine other Democratic presidential candidates gathered on the debate stage in Miami were asked to name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yep, the biggest threat to the nation is its president<\/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":[1027,5544,1424,8733,3694,4050],"class_list":["post-37689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-climate-change","tag-democratic-debate","tag-donald-trump","tag-jay-inslee","tag-prc","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37689","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=37689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37690,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37689\/revisions\/37690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}