{"id":43414,"date":"2020-07-02T20:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43414"},"modified":"2020-07-02T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:45:46","slug":"hoax-more-than-a-four-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43414","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hoax&#8217;: more than a four-letter word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Russianbounty%20%23Putin%20%23Taliban&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bounty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43390\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bounty-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bounty-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bounty-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bounty-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bounty.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is attaching the h-word to reports that he ignored intelligence briefing material that said Russians were paying Taliban fighters a bounty for Americans they killed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <em>&#8220;hoax,&#8221;<\/em> Trump says of the reporting.<\/p>\n<p>He has walked down the hoax hallway before: He called reports of Russian interference in our 2016 election a &#8220;hoax&#8221;; he has used the same term to describe initial reports of the coronavirus pandemic; he said the House of Representatives impeachment articles comprised a &#8220;hoax&#8221; that he solicited help from Ukraine in exchange for military weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Hoax? Yep, that&#8217;s the fallback position for this presidential imposter.<\/p>\n<p>I am not the first Trump critic to say so, but the reporting now about the bounty being paid is getting more legs than a centipede.<\/p>\n<p>Trump either ignored the information, or he didn&#8217;t get it, or he got it but didn&#8217;t bother to read the daily presidential national security briefing. Any one of those matters constitute to my way of thinking a serious dereliction of duty by the commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump expresses his faux respect for the men and women in uniform. Now it is becoming frighteningly apparent that his &#8220;respect&#8221; does not include demanding answers from Russian leaders over the hideous notion that they are paying Taliban terrorists real money to kill our warriors.<\/p>\n<p>This individual is a disgrace.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Russianbounty%20%23Putin%20%23Taliban&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is attaching the h-word to reports that he ignored intelligence briefing material that said Russians were paying Taliban fighters a bounty for Americans they killed in Afghanistan. It&#8217;s a &#8220;hoax,&#8221; Trump says of the reporting. He has walked down the hoax hallway before: He called reports of Russian interference in our 2016 election &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Hoax&#8217;: more than a four-letter word<\/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":[12],"tags":[1424,9429,4501],"class_list":["post-43414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-russian-bounty","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414","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=43414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43415,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414\/revisions\/43415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}