{"id":56765,"date":"2024-03-20T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56765"},"modified":"2024-03-20T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T21:43:08","slug":"these-guys-were-really-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56765","title":{"rendered":"These guys were &#8216;really rich&#8217;"},"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>Quiz time:<em> Did you ever hear Mitt Romney, or Nelson Rockefeller, JFK, RFK or Teddy Kennedy proclaim to adoring crowds that they were &#8220;really rich&#8221;?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time&#8217;s up. I didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>But yet &#8230; this year&#8217;s presumptive Republican presidential nominee has made such a proclamation. Many times, in fact, since he became a politician in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out he might not be quite as &#8220;really rich&#8221; as he bragged. It is being reported widely that the guy who also proclaimed himself to be &#8220;really smart&#8221; and would hire &#8220;the best people&#8221; to work for him cannot raise the $400-plus million bond he is ordered to pay in the defamation case brought by E. Jeanne Carroll, whom a jury has ruled was raped by the former Idiot in Chief.<\/p>\n<p>I am reluctant to say &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; but I have maintained all along that anyone who claims out loud to be as rich and smart as the former POTUS more than likely is neither.<\/p>\n<p>New York Attorney General Leticia James now faces the prospect of seizing the ex-POTUS&#8217;s assets to make him pay for what he owes the court. Wouldn&#8217;t that be, um, <em>rich beyond belief.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney said out loud what many of us knew already prior to the 2016 election. He called the so-called &#8220;really rich&#8221; guy a &#8220;phony&#8221; and a &#8220;fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Am I stunned at what might happen soon? Yes! Am I surprised? Not one little bit!<\/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>Quiz time: Did you ever hear Mitt Romney, or Nelson Rockefeller, JFK, RFK or Teddy Kennedy proclaim to adoring crowds that they were &#8220;really rich&#8221;?\u00a0 Time&#8217;s up. I didn&#8217;t think so. But yet &#8230; this year&#8217;s presumptive Republican presidential nominee has made such a proclamation. Many times, in fact, since he became a politician in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">These guys were &#8216;really rich&#8217;<\/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":[2,13,14],"tags":[2460,3101,3252,3930,4538],"class_list":["post-56765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-jfk","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nelson-rockefeller","tag-rfk","tag-ted-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56765","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=56765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56767,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56765\/revisions\/56767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}