{"id":59467,"date":"2026-02-16T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59467"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:07:39","slug":"the-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59467","title":{"rendered":"The saga continues &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p>There is not a single thing about the Donald Trump story I find to be &#8220;heroic,&#8221; but it surely has been a lengthy tale of tumult, a bit of woe and certainly drama.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I, along with many millions of American patriots, am anxious for the end to arrive. No one can predict how this matter will conclude. We&#8217;ll have an election in November, the result of which could turn Trump into a real-life lame duck who can wait it out until the end of his term in the White House.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Or the election, if it goes according to what the experts are predicting, will produce a ton of tempest &#8230; if Democrats win back control of the U.S. House and possibly even the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What happens then? I am quite certain an impeachment lies directly in Trump&#8217;s future. It&#8217;ll be the third such effort to remove Trump from the office he has pretended to serve for five of the past nine years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Trump&#8217;s time in the White House has been all that many of us feared it would be and what Trump actually predicted would occur. He told us he would be the &#8220;retribution&#8221; his MAGA supporters sought. By golly, he&#8217;s delivered the goods, man.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I listen occasionally to the back-and-forth between congressional Democrats and Trump administration officials testifying before committees and I am left to wonder: <em>How in the name of collegiality can the two sides bridge the chasm that divides them?<\/em> I know the answer. They cannot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to weather more of what we have seen for as long as Donald Trump remains in office.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The question that will linger is this: <em>Will the POTUS be standing for the remainder of his term?<\/em><\/p>\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>There is not a single thing about the Donald Trump story I find to be &#8220;heroic,&#8221; but it surely has been a lengthy tale of tumult, a bit of woe and certainly drama. I, along with many millions of American patriots, am anxious for the end to arrive. No one can predict how this matter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The saga continues &#8230;<\/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],"tags":[1424,2253,7419],"class_list":["post-59467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59467","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=59467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59469,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59467\/revisions\/59469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}