{"id":52882,"date":"2022-09-11T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52882"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:00:06","slug":"how-can-gop-tolerate-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52882","title":{"rendered":"How can GOP tolerate this?"},"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\/2021\/05\/GOP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47977\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-1024x532.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-1536x798.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll just have to resign myself to never knowing the truth while I am alive and breathing.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;truth&#8221; to which I refer happens to involve how a once-great political party can be at one time a champion for &#8220;family values&#8221; and proclaimed that &#8220;character matters&#8221; can align itself with a cult figure who embodies the exact opposite of both principles.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans today are wedded to the rubbish uttered, muttered and sputtered by Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The thrice-married former POTUS has admitted to cheating on his first two wives and then paid a porn star $130,000 to remain quiet about a tryst she said she and the future POTUS had back in the old days. Trump denies the event occurred &#8230; but he paid her the money to <em>keep quiet about it<\/em>. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I should mention that the alleged tumble with the porn queen occurred just weeks after Trump wife No. 3 gave birth to his youngest son.<\/p>\n<p>We are being flooded with information about the FBI search for top-secret documents taken illegally from the White House and socked away in the basement of Trump&#8217;s home in Florida. Republican response to it? Crickets, man.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, though, the silence is a bit of a change in what had been the typical GOP response to allegations leveled against the former Cult Leader in Chief. Members of Congress had been quick to blame Democrats for &#8220;weaponizing&#8221; the process that resulted in two impeachments of Trump. I am hearing little justification for a POTUS taking those documents that belong to the public and do not belong to him.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, GOP congressional leaders remain shamefully silent as evidence piles up along several legal fronts. In Georgia, we hear about a grand jury taking testimony about Trump coercing state election officials to &#8220;find&#8221; enough votes to swing that state&#8217;s 2020 presidential election results to Trump&#8217;s favor. Does anyone in the GOP care about that?<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s business is being probed for allegedly falsifying its assets in order to obtain loans. Are those the ingredients of a character-driven business empire?<\/p>\n<p>The House select 1\/6 committee is trying to finish its probe into Trump&#8217;s role in inciting the insurrection that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Republicans don&#8217;t give a crap about that, either &#8230; except for the two GOP committee members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.<\/p>\n<p>I do not understand what has happened to the Republican Party. I thought I might learn the answer before they threw me into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Silly me.<\/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>I guess I&#8217;ll just have to resign myself to never knowing the truth while I am alive and breathing. The &#8220;truth&#8221; to which I refer happens to involve how a once-great political party can be at one time a champion for &#8220;family values&#8221; and proclaimed that &#8220;character matters&#8221; can align itself with a cult figure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How can GOP tolerate this?<\/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":[2,8688,13,14],"tags":[9183,1424,1685,1941],"class_list":["post-52882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-crime-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-character-matters","tag-donald-trump","tag-family-values","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52882","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=52882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52885,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52882\/revisions\/52885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}