{"id":39417,"date":"2019-10-23T03:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T03:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39417"},"modified":"2019-10-23T03:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T03:18:56","slug":"trump-or-taylor-who-do-we-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39417","title":{"rendered":"Trump or Taylor: Who do we believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=KAG2020%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23WilliamTaylor%20%23Ukraine%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william-taylor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39418\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william-taylor-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william-taylor-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william-taylor-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william-taylor-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/william-taylor.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well now. The impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump&#8217;s presidency has taken yet another decisive turn and it doesn&#8217;t look good for the president.<\/p>\n<p>William Taylor, a career diplomat, a West Point grad, an infantry officer with combat experience in Vietnam, someone with 50 years of public service under his belt has testified that Donald Trump did seek a political favor from a foreign government.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side is Trump, a president, a man with zero public service experience, no national security experience, a serial liar, a novice who doesn&#8217;t the first or second thing about diplomacy denying the existence of a <em>&#8220;quid pro quo&#8221;<\/em> with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Who should we believe? I am going to go with the first fellow, Ambassador Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is a top U.S. envoy to Ukraine. He has been at or near the center of what has gotten Trump into so much political trouble. He reportedly told a congressional committee that Trump did indeed seek a political favor from Ukraine. He said Trump did seek to withhold military assistance until Ukraine provided dirt on Joe Biden and his son, Hunter; oh yeah, Biden might run against Trump for president in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>My head is spinning.<\/p>\n<p>If there can be a more decisive moment in this impeachment inquiry to date, I am hard-pressed to identify it.<\/p>\n<p>William Taylor is credible. Donald Trump is not.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=KAG2020%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23WilliamTaylor%20%23Ukraine%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now. The impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump&#8217;s presidency has taken yet another decisive turn and it doesn&#8217;t look good for the president. William Taylor, a career diplomat, a West Point grad, an infantry officer with combat experience in Vietnam, someone with 50 years of public service under his belt has testified that Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump or Taylor: Who do we believe?<\/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":[1424,2253,9002,4998],"class_list":["post-39417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-quid-pro-quo","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39417","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=39417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39419,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39417\/revisions\/39419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}