{"id":53819,"date":"2022-12-20T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53819"},"modified":"2022-12-20T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T00:47:24","slug":"insurrection-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53819","title":{"rendered":"How does GOP defend 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>As I listened today to the members of the House 1\/6 select committee lay out the allegations against Donald J. Trump, I could not help thinking about how Trump&#8217;s sycophants will defend the individual&#8217;s indefensible actions.<\/p>\n<p>How are they going to say that Trump&#8217;s speech on the Ellipse on 1\/6 didn&#8217;t incited an angry mob of traitors? How are they going to defend the ex-president&#8217;s refusal to stop the assault on the Capitol? How are they going to defend with a straight face the actions of that mob, other than to say they were engaging in &#8220;legitimate political discourse&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: They will do all of that. They will continue to cower in their cowardly fealty to Trump. The cabal of cultists in Congress will high-five each other, slap each other on the back and defend what only can be called the actions of a criminal.<\/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>As I listened today to the members of the House 1\/6 select committee lay out the allegations against Donald J. Trump, I could not help thinking about how Trump&#8217;s sycophants will defend the individual&#8217;s indefensible actions. How are they going to say that Trump&#8217;s speech on the Ellipse on 1\/6 didn&#8217;t incited an angry mob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How does GOP defend 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":[8688],"tags":[1941,10092,2280],"class_list":["post-53819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-gop","tag-house-1-6-select-committee","tag-insurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819","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=53819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53820,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53819\/revisions\/53820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}