{"id":50459,"date":"2022-02-08T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50459"},"modified":"2022-02-08T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:28:54","slug":"gop-hotshot-speaks-for-other-gopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50459","title":{"rendered":"GOP hotshot speaks for other GOPers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AAR0u0J.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50461\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AAR0u0J-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AAR0u0J-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AAR0u0J-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AAR0u0J-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AAR0u0J.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Christie said something the other day that other distinguished Republicans reportedly think in private but are too chicken to say it out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Christie, a former New Jersey governor, ex-presidential candidate and former confidant of Donald Trump, said this to radio gabber Hugh Hewitt:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week: overturn the election. He wanted the election to be overturned.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There you have it. The truth spills out, again &#8230; this time from a Republican of some note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/chris-christie-said-what-a-lot-of-republican-are-thinking-about-january-6\/ar-AATA3Tl?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531\">Chris Christie said what a lot of Republican are thinking about January 6 (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the ex-governor is trying to restore his reputation as a tough talker who doesn&#8217;t give a damn about the consequences. Or perhaps &#8212; and this is likely a stretch &#8212; Christie is just plain fed up to his eyeballs with the incessance of The Big Lie that Trump keeps repeating, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief! It was the most secure election in history. The guy Trump hired to ensure its security said so &#8212; and then got fired for telling us the truth.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to hear Gov. Christie say out loud what he should have said all along. If only other Republicans &#8212; and that includes the voters out here in the cheap seats &#8212; would agree with the words of wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>And then act on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie said something the other day that other distinguished Republicans reportedly think in private but are too chicken to say it out loud. Christie, a former New Jersey governor, ex-presidential candidate and former confidant of Donald Trump, said this to radio gabber Hugh Hewitt: &#8220;January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP hotshot speaks for other GOPers<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[7225,9631,965,1424,5129],"class_list":["post-50459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2020-election","tag-big-lie","tag-chris-christie","tag-donald-trump","tag-vote-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50459","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=50459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50462,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50459\/revisions\/50462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}