{"id":29335,"date":"2020-07-03T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29335"},"modified":"2020-07-03T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T22:02:18","slug":"thats-quite-a-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/03\/thats-quite-a-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Quite A Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When then-candidate Trump spoke of emptying the swamp, we hadn&#8217;t yet caught on to his habit of projection. Heather Cox Richardson has a lovely <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/july-2-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summary<\/a> of an exotic addition to the <em>Trumpian Swamp<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was [Attorney General William] Barr&#8217;s father, Donald Barr, the headmaster of the prestigious Dalton School in New York City, who launched Epstein, hiring the 20-year-old math whiz and college dropout Epstein to teach high school calculus and physics. It was a student&#8217;s father who gave him a start in the more lucrative profession of options trading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t give a source, though. But it sure seems to be a coterie of corruption in the White House these days, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><em>Later<\/em>: And especially ironic, given Barr&#8217;s speech to a Notre Dame audience where he <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/05\/12\/descending-the-ladder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accuses militant secularists<\/a> of destroying society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When then-candidate Trump spoke of emptying the swamp, we hadn&#8217;t yet caught on to his habit of projection. Heather Cox Richardson has a lovely summary of an exotic addition to the Trumpian Swamp: It was [Attorney General William] Barr&#8217;s father, Donald Barr, the headmaster of the prestigious Dalton School in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/03\/thats-quite-a-swamp\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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-29335","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\/29335","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=29335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29340,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29335\/revisions\/29340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}