{"id":42879,"date":"2020-05-25T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42879"},"modified":"2020-05-25T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T13:13:45","slug":"governor-has-learned-the-hard-way-how-to-deal-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42879","title":{"rendered":"Governor has learned the hard way how to deal with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23GovWhitmer%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whitmer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42880\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whitmer-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whitmer-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whitmer-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/whitmer.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to give Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer high marks for knowing how to work with a president of the United States who doesn&#8217;t understand the partnership aspect of governing.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump keeps threatening states that don&#8217;t follow policies he favors. Whitmer, meanwhile, has told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/gretchen-whitmer-says-she-censors-herself-when-speaking-about-trump-to-ensure-continued-federal-assistance\/ar-BB14xim1?ocid=msedgdhp\">Axios<\/a> that she &#8220;censors&#8221; her public comments about Trump believing that if she pulls her punches that Trump won&#8217;t cut her state off from federal aid she insists it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>At issue of course is the coronavirus pandemic and Trump&#8217;s game-playing with governors who are fighting the medical crisis the best way they can. Trump keeps sending conflicting messages. He doesn&#8217;t want states to enact all-mail voting available for the presidential election, spewing lies about &#8220;rampant voter fraud.&#8221; Whitmer, meanwhile, seeks to wage the fight against the virus with virtually no emotional support from a president whose sole focus is riveted on his attempt to win re-election.<\/p>\n<p>I need to mention that Whitmer reportedly is among the candidates being considered for a vice-presidential spot on the Democratic ticket led by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the party&#8217;s presumptive presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect strongly that if she gets the nod, she won&#8217;t <em>&#8220;censor&#8221;<\/em> her remarks as she hits the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Still, for now she&#8217;s trying to do her job. If it means softening her comments about Donald Trump, I&#8217;m OK with that.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23GovWhitmer%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer high marks for knowing how to work with a president of the United States who doesn&#8217;t understand the partnership aspect of governing. Donald Trump keeps threatening states that don&#8217;t follow policies he favors. Whitmer, meanwhile, has told Axios that she &#8220;censors&#8221; her public comments about Trump believing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Governor has learned the hard way how to deal with Trump<\/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":[9236,1424,9343,9261],"class_list":["post-42879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-gretchen-whitmer","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42879","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=42879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42881,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42879\/revisions\/42881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}