{"id":38430,"date":"2019-08-12T19:18:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38430"},"modified":"2019-08-12T19:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:18:13","slug":"mooch-turns-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38430","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mooch&#8217; turns on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TheMooch%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mooch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38431\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mooch-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mooch-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mooch-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mooch.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Scaramucci no longer supports the re-election of the man he once admired, whose friendship he coveted.<\/p>\n<p>The Mooch says Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric has gone way past the pale in recent weeks and months. So, the one-time White House communications director says he&#8217;s done with Donald.<\/p>\n<p>But a CNN analyst, Chris Cillizza, disputes The Mooch&#8217;s characterization of Trump&#8217;s rhetoric. He says Trump is the same old, race-baiting, insult-hurling xenophobe he&#8217;s been since he entered political life. Cillizza, moreover, wonders whether The Mooch is trying to cover his own backside by asserting that Trump&#8217;s rhetoric of late has gotten worse.<\/p>\n<p>I believe The Mooch is trying to seek some justification for his former support of this disgraceful man masquerading as POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Trump&#8217;s rhetoric in reality is no more inflammatory than it has been since he declared his candidacy in June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>As Cillizza pointed out, Trump did mock a New York Times reporter&#8217;s disability, he criticized a Gold Star family who made anti-Trump remarks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, he said the late Sen. John McCain was a &#8220;war hero only because he got captured&#8221; and was held captive during the Vietnam War, he told an &#8220;Access Hollywood&#8221; interview how he grabbed women by their genitals \u2026 and on and on it has gone. You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The Mooch, who served as communications chief at the White House for 11 days before getting fired, once stood firmly behind the president. No more.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m fine with The Mooch saying these critical things about the president. He just doesn&#8217;t need to fabricate some notion that what Trump is saying now is different in tone and tenor from what he&#8217;s been saying all along.<\/p>\n<p>Many millions of us saw it from the beginning, Mooch.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome aboard.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TheMooch%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Scaramucci no longer supports the re-election of the man he once admired, whose friendship he coveted. The Mooch says Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric has gone way past the pale in recent weeks and months. So, the one-time White House communications director says he&#8217;s done with Donald. But a CNN analyst, Chris Cillizza, disputes The Mooch&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Mooch&#8217; turns on Trump<\/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":[7192,1424,7756,8856],"class_list":["post-38430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-anthony-scaramucci","tag-donald-trump","tag-the-mooch","tag-wh-communications-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430","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=38430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38432,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430\/revisions\/38432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}