{"id":44807,"date":"2020-10-16T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44807"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:43:16","slug":"shouldnt-potus-know-these-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44807","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn&#8217;t POTUS know these things?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23QAnon%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41939\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to ask a question that should have been asked of Donald Trump at the Miami town hall session he held last night.<\/p>\n<p>Trump received a question about conspiracy theorists, such as QAnon &#8212; the right wing goofballs who back his candidacy for re-election. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything about QAnon,&#8221; he said. It&#8217;s a familiar dodge that Trump has employed whenever he gets asked about, oh, white supremacists, or the KKK, or any of the loons who want him re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>The question that never seems to get asked is this: <em>As president of the United States, arguably the most powerful position on Earth, shouldn&#8217;t you know about these groups?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump seems all too willing to fall back on some sort of &#8220;I know nothing&#8221; defense of what I believe is the indefensible.<\/p>\n<p>What also is indefensible has been the media&#8217;s reluctance to challenge him directly on what to me looks like an obvious follow-up question.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23QAnon%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I want to ask a question that should have been asked of Donald Trump at the Miami town hall session he held last night. Trump received a question about conspiracy theorists, such as QAnon &#8212; the right wing goofballs who back his candidacy for re-election. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know anything about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shouldn&#8217;t POTUS know these things?<\/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":[7932],"tags":[1424,9490],"class_list":["post-44807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-qanon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44807","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=44807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44808,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44807\/revisions\/44808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}