{"id":45179,"date":"2020-11-20T01:38:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45179"},"modified":"2020-11-20T01:38:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:38:20","slug":"trump-legacy-shattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45179","title":{"rendered":"Trump legacy? Shattered!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=fakenews%20%23votefraud%20%23MAGA%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38643\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donald_trump304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38643\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donald_trump304-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donald_trump304-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/donald_trump304.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This will come as no big surprise, but I have to get this off my chest.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s legacy as president of the United States was &#8212; at best &#8212; destined to be a mixed, but mostly negative, compilation of historical fact.<\/p>\n<p>Then came his losing bid for re-election. President-elect Biden is trying to form a government. He is being stymied and blocked at every level by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The lame-duck president essentially had two courses he could have taken after losing the election.<\/p>\n<p>He could have accepted the election result, offered a tepid &#8220;concession&#8221; and then released his team to assist in the transition. He could have kept his trap shut and gone out quietly.<\/p>\n<p>He chose another course. He has alleged voter fraud where none exists. He has withheld presidential briefings from the new president and his national security team. Trump has withheld cooperation on the pandemic response, while hundreds of Americans continue to die each day. POTUS is meddling in states&#8217; efforts to certify their election results, which already have told us that Biden won and Trump lost.<\/p>\n<p>What is all this going to do to whatever legacy Donald Trump sought to leave behind? It will shatter it into a zillion pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is now going to be remembered as a joke, a fraud, a laughingstock, a hideous political aberration, a dangerous wannabe despot.<\/p>\n<p>Nice going, Donald.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=fakenews%20%23votefraud%20%23MAGA%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com This will come as no big surprise, but I have to get this off my chest. Donald Trump&#8217;s legacy as president of the United States was &#8212; at best &#8212; destined to be a mixed, but mostly negative, compilation of historical fact. Then came his losing bid for re-election. President-elect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump legacy? 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