{"id":41031,"date":"2020-02-02T00:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T00:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41031"},"modified":"2020-02-02T00:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T00:40:54","slug":"in-this-case-it-is-in-our-best-interest-to-remove-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41031","title":{"rendered":"In this case, it is in our &#8216;best interest&#8217; to remove POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MarcoRubio%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial%20%23abuseofpower%20%23obstructionofCongress&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BBZuwTA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41032\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BBZuwTA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BBZuwTA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BBZuwTA-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BBZuwTA.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a one-time foe and critic of Donald John Trump, is one of those Republicans who&#8217;s had a serious change of heart and mind about the nation&#8217;s current president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president from office,&#8221; Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>Let me ponder that for a second.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I&#8217;m done pondering.<\/p>\n<p>If someone&#8217;s action do meet that standard, then it seems to me that it&#8217;s damn near<em> imperative<\/em> that we remove that individual from office.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has impeached Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress allegations. They House made the case. Trump should be kicked out, sent to Mar-a-Lago. It won&#8217;t happen. The Republicans who control the U.S. Senate are going to acquit the president on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sen. Rubio &#8212; once the butt of tasteless, crass quips from Trump back when the two of them competed for the 2016 presidential nomination &#8212; says that impeachable behavior is not a reason to punish the doer of that deed. Is that what he really means?<\/p>\n<p>Goodness, gracious alive. What in the world has happened to us?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MarcoRubio%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial%20%23abuseofpower%20%23obstructionofCongress&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a one-time foe and critic of Donald John Trump, is one of those Republicans who&#8217;s had a serious change of heart and mind about the nation&#8217;s current president. &#8220;Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In this case, it is in our &#8216;best interest&#8217; to remove POTUS<\/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":[129,1424,2892,9093,8655],"class_list":["post-41031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-donald-trump","tag-marco-rubio","tag-obstruction-of-congress","tag-senate-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031","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=41031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41033,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions\/41033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}