{"id":40937,"date":"2020-01-26T00:37:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T00:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40937"},"modified":"2020-01-26T00:37:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T00:37:57","slug":"trump-is-still-a-phony-and-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40937","title":{"rendered":"Trump is still a &#8216;phony&#8217; and a &#8216;fraud&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Mitt%20%23Senatetrial%20%23impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t vote for Mitt Romney in 2012 when he ran for president against Barack H. Obama. I felt at the time &#8212; and I do at this moment &#8212; that the incumbent president was better for this country than his Republican opponent.<\/p>\n<p>But then Mitt had to make a speech in 2016 that spoke for many millions of his fellow Americans. Here it is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch Mitt Romney&#039;s full speech: \u2018Trump is a phony, a fraud\u2019\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2iefXdC794I?start=47&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He called the then-prospective GOP nominee a &#8220;phony&#8221; and a &#8220;fraud.&#8221; He was right then. He would be right today &#8212; were he to muster the nerve to say it about the fraudulent politician who went on to be elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to share this video once again to offer a glimmer of hope that now Sen. Romney, of Utah, will muster up some guts to break ranks with his Republican Senate colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Romney says he wants former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in the ongoing Senate trial of Donald John Trump. Bolton heard Trump&#8217;s infamous phone call to Ukraine&#8217;s president in which he asked the foreign government for a political favor. Bolton reportedly was alarmed at what he heard.<\/p>\n<p>The House has impeached Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump&#8217;s legal team has begun its defense of the president. No one in the Senate or the House who purports to support Trump has stood up for the man&#8217;s character.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Romney damn sure isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The speech attached to this blog post speaks volumes &#8212; and it speaks them <em>loudly<\/em> &#8212; to the essence of the man who sought the presidency in 2016 and who has abused the power of his office ever since he swore an oath to defend the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Mitt%20%23Senatetrial%20%23impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t vote for Mitt Romney in 2012 when he ran for president against Barack H. Obama. I felt at the time &#8212; and I do at this moment &#8212; that the incumbent president was better for this country than his Republican opponent. But then Mitt had to make a speech in 2016 that spoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump is still a &#8216;phony&#8217; and a &#8216;fraud&#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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2253,3101,8655],"class_list":["post-40937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-mitt-romney","tag-senate-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937","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=40937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40938,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937\/revisions\/40938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}