{"id":40623,"date":"2020-01-03T19:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40623"},"modified":"2020-01-03T19:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:58:33","slug":"can-we-believe-a-potus-who-cannot-tell-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40623","title":{"rendered":"Can we believe a POTUS who cannot tell the truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23airstrike%20%23RevolutionaryGuard%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/air-strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40624\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/air-strike-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/air-strike-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/air-strike-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/air-strike.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This must be said, so I will say it.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s penchant for prevarication, his unwillingness to tell the truth puts <em>everything<\/em> he says about the killing of a bloodthirsty terrorist into serious doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Do not misconstrue me, please. Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader Qassem Sulemaini needed to die. Donald Trump ordered an airstrike this week that killed a man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. service personnel.\u00a0The call took guts to make and I salute the president for ordering the strike.<\/p>\n<p>However, he now says it was done to prevent a planned attack on U.S. forces, that it was done as a <em>defensive<\/em> move.<\/p>\n<p>I am only wondering now whether Donald Trump is telling the truth on that matter. Was there actually a strike in the offing from the Iranian forces? Can we trust this nation&#8217;s current president to tell us the truth, without equivocation, of the context surrounding the air strike?<\/p>\n<p>I long ago stopped attaching credibility to virtually anything that the president tells me, but yet, I want this statement from Trump to ring true. I just need to be convinced.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23airstrike%20%23RevolutionaryGuard%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This must be said, so I will say it. Donald Trump&#8217;s penchant for prevarication, his unwillingness to tell the truth puts everything he says about the killing of a bloodthirsty terrorist into serious doubt. Do not misconstrue me, please. Iranian Revolutionary Guard leader Qassem Sulemaini needed to die. Donald Trump ordered an airstrike this week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can we believe a POTUS who cannot tell the truth?<\/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":[5],"tags":[9137,2312,9135,9136],"class_list":["post-40623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-air-strike","tag-iran","tag-revolutionary-guard","tag-sulameini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40623","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=40623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40625,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40623\/revisions\/40625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}