{"id":46130,"date":"2021-01-18T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46130"},"modified":"2021-01-18T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:29:24","slug":"big-lie-emerges-from-the-morass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46130","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Lie&#8217; emerges from the morass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Trumplies%20%23WashingtonPost%20%23insurrection&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46131\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" 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>Donald John Trump did the impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right! He managed to elevate one lie above all the thousands of other lies he told during his term as president. I will call it The Big Lie that incited the terrorists to storm into the Capitol Building on Jan. 6; they sought to stop the counting of Electoral College votes that produced Joe Biden&#8217;s election as president.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorists sought to do physical harm to the <em>speaker of the House and the vice president of the United States<\/em>, for God&#8217;s sake!<\/p>\n<p>The Big Lie that Trump fomented was that the 2020 election was &#8220;stolen,&#8221; that Biden got elected on the basis of &#8220;widespread voter fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, we saw the result of how terrorists react to The Big Lie. They presumed the worst even though there isn&#8217;t a shred of evidence to support The Big Lie.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has gone silent in the final few days of his term in office. That means he isn&#8217;t lying. The Washington Post tabulated a running count of Trump&#8217;s lies. The last I heard the Post had counted more than 30,000 of them.<\/p>\n<p>This one, though, is an epic lie. It&#8217;s even more critical of a lie than Trump&#8217;s previous Big Lie, which was that President Obama wasn&#8217;t constitutionally qualified to run for the presidency because of his place of birth. The former Big Lie didn&#8217;t result in\u00a0 the violence that the voter fraud lie produced.<\/p>\n<p>So that lie stands as the winner of the unofficial title as The Big Lie. It is one for the history books. I didn&#8217;t think it was possible for Donald Trump to lift one lie above all the mess of lies he told.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; he did! Wow!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Trumplies%20%23WashingtonPost%20%23insurrection&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Donald John Trump did the impossible. Yes, that&#8217;s right! He managed to elevate one lie above all the thousands of other lies he told during his term as president. I will call it The Big Lie that incited the terrorists to storm into the Capitol Building on Jan. 6; they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Big Lie&#8217; emerges from the morass<\/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":[1],"tags":[1424,7525,5131],"class_list":["post-46130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-trumps-lies","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46130","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=46130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46132,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46130\/revisions\/46132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}