{"id":43957,"date":"2020-08-11T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43957"},"modified":"2020-08-11T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:00:11","slug":"t-word-tossed-out-there-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43957","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;T-word&#8217; tossed out there &#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23spying%20%23JamesComey%20%23CIA%20%23FBI%20%23DNI&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Treason.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39089\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Treason-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Treason-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Treason.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, that goofball\/demagogue\/liar Donald J. Trump just can&#8217;t stop hurling the &#8220;t-word&#8221; at Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>He said the former president of the United States likely committed &#8220;treason&#8221; by spying on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. He said that former CIA director John Brennan knew about it; so did former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; same for former FBI director James Comey; of course, let&#8217;s not forget former Vice President Joe Biden &#8230; he knew about it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Trump today called it the &#8220;biggest political scandal in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Was it &#8220;treasonous,&#8221; Mr. President? <em>Are you kidding me?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First of all, there was no &#8220;spying&#8221; done on the campaign. There were questions raised about allegations of Russian interference during the 2016 campaign. The Obama administration was obligated to examine it under the law.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, for Trump to toss out &#8220;treason&#8221; once again amounts to demagoguery at its worst.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, treason is defined by federal statute as a betrayal of the country, of doing something to aid an enemy state.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the punishment for committing an act of treason? <em>Death!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am so damn weary of hearing Trump spew this trash.<\/p>\n<p>We have an election just over the horizon. For my money, it cannot get here soon enough. Donald Trump&#8217;s incessant posturing about alleged &#8220;spying&#8221; is dangerous and it needs to end.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to me the only way to shut this liar down is to vote him out of office.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23spying%20%23JamesComey%20%23CIA%20%23FBI%20%23DNI&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, that goofball\/demagogue\/liar Donald J. Trump just can&#8217;t stop hurling the &#8220;t-word&#8221; at Barack Obama. He said the former president of the United States likely committed &#8220;treason&#8221; by spying on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. He said that former CIA director John Brennan knew about it; so did former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;T-word&#8217; tossed out there &#8230; again<\/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":[7926],"tags":[74,1424,9478,4899],"class_list":["post-43957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-spying","tag-treason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957","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=43957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43958,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957\/revisions\/43958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}