{"id":39981,"date":"2019-11-25T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39981"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:32:00","slug":"trump-was-chosen-by-whom-and-for-what-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39981","title":{"rendered":"Trump was ‘chosen’? By whom and for what purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There can be little if any<\/em> doubt that Energy Secretary Rick Perry has swilled the Donald J. Trump Kool-Aid, the elixir that turns Trump foes into slobbering sycophants.<\/p>\n

The lame duck energy boss, who’s leaving office at the end of this week, has declared that the president is the “chosen one” who got elected in 2016.<\/p>\n

Really? I could swear I heard the former Texas governor declare that Trump was a “cancer on conservatism.” He said that during the 2016 presidential campaign when Perry was one of a large group of Republicans challenging Trump for the party nomination.<\/p>\n

Perry told Fox News<\/a> that Trump was “sent by God to do great things.” I am resisting the urge to upchuck my breakfast.<\/p>\n

I will not delineate the areas where I believe Trump has fallen flat on his face as president, other than to say that Perry’s phony-sounding fealty to Trump has the sound to my ears of a cult follower.<\/p>\n

“God’s used imperfect people all through history. King David wasn’t perfect. Saul wasn’t perfect. Solomon wasn’t perfect,” Perry said in the interview, which aired this past Sunday.<\/p>\n

Oh \u2026 my.<\/p>\n

You may go now, Mr. Secretary.<\/p>\n\n

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There can be little if any doubt that Energy Secretary Rick Perry has swilled the Donald J. Trump Kool-Aid, the elixir that turns Trump foes into slobbering sycophants. The lame duck energy boss, who’s leaving office at the end of this week, has declared that the president is the “chosen one” who got elected in … Continue reading Trump was ‘chosen’? By whom and for what purpose?<\/span> →<\/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":[610,6746,1424,3951],"class_list":["post-39981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bible","tag-doe","tag-donald-trump","tag-rick-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981","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=39981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39983,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39981\/revisions\/39983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}