{"id":39228,"date":"2019-10-11T02:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39228"},"modified":"2019-10-11T02:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:52:27","slug":"former-national-security-adviser-speaks-the-blunt-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39228","title":{"rendered":"Former national security adviser speaks the blunt truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23HRMcMaster&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/don.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39106\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/don-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/don-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/don-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/don-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/don.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>H.R. McMaster is no longer beholden to Donald John Trump, who hired him as national security adviser to the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this because McMaster, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who got the boot from Trump over policy disagreements within the West Wing, spoke the truth today in answering a direct question: Is it appropriate for the president to ask a foreign power to interfere in our electoral process?<\/p>\n<p>McMaster&#8217;s response? &#8220;Of course it&#8217;s not appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is worth noting because some key Republican lawmakers &#8212; who also are not beholden to the president &#8212; cannot answer that question. Joni Ernst of Iowa couldn&#8217;t speak the truth. Nor could Cory Gardner of Colorado. Jim Jordan of Ohio danced all around the question. None of them answered the question.<\/p>\n<p>Why the reticence? I guess they are frightened over what Trump might do in response.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, in theory they are answerable only to the people who elect them. They are not answerable to the president, who presides over a separate branch of government. The executive and legislative branches are &#8220;co-equal&#8221; in power. They are supposed to serve as checks on each other.<\/p>\n<p>However, we are left now to hear <em>only<\/em> from those of the president&#8217;s political party who no longer serve in government to speak the proverbial &#8220;truth to power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shameful.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23HRMcMaster&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.R. McMaster is no longer beholden to Donald John Trump, who hired him as national security adviser to the president of the United States. 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