{"id":42348,"date":"2020-04-20T19:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42348"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:15:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:15:34","slug":"hell-freezes-over-trump-tells-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42348","title":{"rendered":"Hell freezes over: Trump tells the truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MittRomney%20%23pandemic%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB10Knrw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42349\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB10Knrw-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB10Knrw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB10Knrw-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BB10Knrw.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never thought this day would come, but it did \u2026 yesterday, during a White House campaign rally-style riff by the president of the United States who supposedly was briefing the nation about the health outbreak that has gripped the world.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked Donald Trump whether he declined to appoint U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, to join a task force to reopen the country in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic out of anger at Romney&#8217;s criticism of him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he is &#8220;not a fan of Mitt Romney. I don&#8217;t want his advice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, the answer is &#8220;yes,&#8221; Trump is still angry at Romney because the Republican senator voted to convict the president of abuse of power during the Senate impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>See what I mean? Trump actually told the truth that he does hold a grudge against Romney!<\/p>\n<p>This fit of truth-telling isn&#8217;t worth any sort of praise, given the smallness and pettiness it represents about what passes for Trump&#8217;s thought pattern.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MittRomney%20%23pandemic%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought this day would come, but it did \u2026 yesterday, during a White House campaign rally-style riff by the president of the United States who supposedly was briefing the nation about the health outbreak that has gripped the world. A reporter asked Donald Trump whether he declined to appoint U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hell freezes over: Trump tells 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":[11],"tags":[129,9236,1424,2253,3101,9261],"class_list":["post-42348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-mitt-romney","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42348","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=42348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42350,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42348\/revisions\/42350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}