{"id":44336,"date":"2020-09-10T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44336"},"modified":"2020-09-10T00:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:52:22","slug":"no-fake-news-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44336","title":{"rendered":"No &#8216;fake news&#8217; here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19%20%23Rage%20%23BobWoodward&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donnie-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44337\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donnie-trump-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donnie-trump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donnie-trump-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donnie-trump.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Donald Trump campaign staffer laid it on the line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hard to say fake news when there is audio of his comments,&#8221; the staffer said.<\/p>\n<p>What we have here are Donald Trump&#8217;s own words saying things that have caused yet another eruption on the 2020 presidential election campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/white-house-and-trump-campaign-scramble-to-respond-to-woodward-revelations\/ar-BB18RZH9?ocid=msedgdhp\">Donald Trump spoke<\/a> at length with legendary reporter Bob Woodward, who&#8217;s about to release a book, &#8220;Rage.&#8221; What did Trump say that has caused such an upheaval? Oh, only that he knew in <em>February<\/em> that the COVID-19 pandemic was a deadly event, but that he deliberately withheld any warning signs of doom because he didn&#8217;t want to cause &#8220;panic&#8221; among Americans.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s see how we connect a few dots.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump vowed to protect Americans when he became president of the United States. Then in the earliest weeks of 2020, a virus was detected overseas. Donald Trump&#8217;s initial public reaction was to declare that the coronavirus would disappear, that it would vanish like a &#8220;miracle.&#8221; No sweat, he said. Nothing to see here, he reminded us.<\/p>\n<p>Except now we hear that he knew early on that we had a relentless killer knocking on our door. And that Donald Trump refused to do a damn thing to protect Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Good ever-lovin&#8217; grief! Is this a &#8220;promise kept&#8221; or is it a <em>sacred oath<\/em> violated?<\/p>\n<p>The word now is that the Trump campaign and the White House are &#8220;scrambling&#8221; to craft &#8212; or <em>concoct<\/em> &#8212; a cogent message to respond to Trump&#8217;s own words.<\/p>\n<p>There, indeed, can be no &#8220;fake news&#8221; retort from Team Trump, or from Trump himself. Although, and this point should be made, not a damn thing ever has prevented Trump from invoking that phony excuse even when the evidence has been laid directly at his feet.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19%20%23Rage%20%23BobWoodward&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com A Donald Trump campaign staffer laid it on the line. &#8220;Hard to say fake news when there is audio of his comments,&#8221; the staffer said. What we have here are Donald Trump&#8217;s own words saying things that have caused yet another eruption on the 2020 presidential election campaign trail. Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No &#8216;fake news&#8217; here<\/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":[696,9236,9257,1424,9261],"class_list":["post-44336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bob-woodward","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336","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=44336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44339,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336\/revisions\/44339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}