{"id":39122,"date":"2019-10-04T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39122"},"modified":"2019-10-04T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:16:03","slug":"mitt-has-it-right-trumps-action-appalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39122","title":{"rendered":"Mitt has it right: Trump&#8217;s action &#8216;appalling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment%20%23Mitt&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mitt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39123\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mitt-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mitt-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mitt-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mitt-1024x766.png 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mitt.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney has it precisely right.<\/p>\n<p>The junior U.S. senator from Utah has described Donald Trump&#8217;s call for China and Ukraine to &#8220;investigate&#8221; a potential political foe &#8220;appalling&#8221; and &#8220;wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is the GOP dam about to break as it regards the president&#8217;s troubles in the face of probable impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?<\/p>\n<p>Romney, the GOP presidential nominee in 2012, wrote this on Twitter: <em><span style=\"list-style: none; text-align: left; color: #1c2022; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Roboto,'Segoe UI',Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; direction: ltr; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: #ffffff;\">When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China\u2019s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do ya think?<\/p>\n<p>Trump keeps insisting he is trying to root out &#8220;corruption.&#8221; He declares that it&#8217;s normal for presidents to seek foreign government assistance in that noble endeavor. Actually, it isn&#8217;t normal. There&#8217;s nothing normal about what is unfolding before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Romney, who once warned us about Trump being a &#8220;phony&#8221; and a &#8220;fraud,&#8221; is justifiably &#8220;appalled&#8221; at what he is witnessing from the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I hope there will be other Republicans who will awaken to the rampant corruption on display in the White House.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment%20%23Mitt&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney has it precisely right. The junior U.S. senator from Utah has described Donald Trump&#8217;s call for China and Ukraine to &#8220;investigate&#8221; a potential political foe &#8220;appalling&#8221; and &#8220;wrong.&#8221; Is the GOP dam about to break as it regards the president&#8217;s troubles in the face of probable impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mitt has it right: Trump&#8217;s action &#8216;appalling&#8217;<\/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":[1424,2253,3101],"class_list":["post-39122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122","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=39122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39124,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39122\/revisions\/39124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}