{"id":39026,"date":"2019-09-28T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39026"},"modified":"2019-09-28T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T16:06:30","slug":"this-really-has-been-trumps-worst-week-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39026","title":{"rendered":"This really has been Trump&#8217;s &#8216;worst week&#8217; as president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23Trumpimpeachment%20%23Ukraine%20%23Russia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190820-donald-trump-cs-410p_d7184f9803e6395ade4a0556bd4611f7.fit-1240w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38547\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190820-donald-trump-cs-410p_d7184f9803e6395ade4a0556bd4611f7.fit-1240w-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190820-donald-trump-cs-410p_d7184f9803e6395ade4a0556bd4611f7.fit-1240w-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190820-donald-trump-cs-410p_d7184f9803e6395ade4a0556bd4611f7.fit-1240w-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190820-donald-trump-cs-410p_d7184f9803e6395ade4a0556bd4611f7.fit-1240w-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190820-donald-trump-cs-410p_d7184f9803e6395ade4a0556bd4611f7.fit-1240w.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has had so many &#8220;worst weeks&#8221; of his presidency that I have lost count of them.<\/p>\n<p>There was the week when he supported Russian strongman Vladimir Putin&#8217;s denial that Russians attacked our electoral system in 2016; or when he attacked our allies at NATO and threatened to pull the United States out of the seven-decade-old military alliance; or the time he accepted responsibility for shutting down the federal government; and let us not forget the week in which he said there were &#8220;fine people \u2026 on both sides&#8221; of an uprising that included Klansmen, Nazis and white supremacists on one of those sides.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this week really has been \u2026 um, terrible!<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in Congress are preparing to impeach the president. They have launched an impeachment inquiry over allegations that Trump asked Ukrainians for help in bringing down a potential political foe. What&#8217;s more, he seemed to hold up a congressional approved military aid package until such help would be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this really has been Trump&#8217;s &#8220;worst week&#8221; as president.<\/p>\n<p>Might it get even worse than that? Oh, sure. He could actually be impeached. He could stand trial in the Senate. He could be convicted of &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221; and kicked out of office.<\/p>\n<p>This week, though, stands apart from the other &#8220;worst weeks&#8221; that Donald Trump has suffered.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23Trumpimpeachment%20%23Ukraine%20%23Russia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump has had so many &#8220;worst weeks&#8221; of his presidency that I have lost count of them. There was the week when he supported Russian strongman Vladimir Putin&#8217;s denial that Russians attacked our electoral system in 2016; or when he attacked our allies at NATO and threatened to pull the United States out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This really has been Trump&#8217;s &#8216;worst week&#8217; as 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":[1424,7793,4998],"class_list":["post-39026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump-impeachment","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39026","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=39026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39029,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39026\/revisions\/39029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}