{"id":18099,"date":"2018-10-25T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18099"},"modified":"2018-10-25T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T15:52:59","slug":"an-independent-voters-guide-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/10\/25\/an-independent-voters-guide-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"An Independent Voter\u2019s Guide, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t find my Independent Voter’s Guide<\/a> entirely persuasive, then check this New York Times<\/strong><\/em> article<\/a> concerning President Trump’s national security sensibilities:<\/p>\n

When President Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe or solicit their latest take on how he is doing, American intelligence reports indicate that Chinese spies are often listening \u2014 and putting to use invaluable insights into how to best work the president and affect administration policy, current and former American officials said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s aides have repeatedly warned him that his cellphone calls are not secure, and they have told him that Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, as well. But aides say the voluble president, who has been pressured into using his secure White House landline more often these days, has still refused to give up his iPhones. White House officials<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lovely. Is there outrage among Republican members of Congress? Calls for reprimands or even impeachment? Waiting to see. Maybe they will.<\/p>\n

Did you, dear reader, suffer (or enjoy, depending on your kicks) outrage at Secretary Clinton’s approach to her mail servers (which Secretary Powell had recommended to her, BTW)? This is just as bad. How much longer can the United States tolerate such loose behavior in the Chief Executive and his or her Cabinet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t find my Independent Voter’s Guide entirely persuasive, then check this New York Times article concerning President Trump’s national security sensibilities: When President Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe or solicit their latest take on how he is doing, American intelligence reports \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18100,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions\/18100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}