{"id":30677,"date":"2020-09-25T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30677"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:14:35","slug":"because-i-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/25\/because-i-know-better\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because I Know Better&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TPM<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/meadows-attacks-wrays-testimony-refuting-trumps-false-claims-about-mail-in-ballots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notes<\/a> a clash between an expert and a &#8230; <em>barstool blowhard<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows lashed out at FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2019s testimony to Congress in which the FBI leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/fbi-wray-no-evidence-mail-in-voting-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected<\/a>\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s bogus conspiracy theory that mail-in voting can and will lead to election fraud that would rig the election against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all due respect to Director Wray, he has a hard time finding emails in his own FBI, let alone figuring out whether there\u2019s any kind of voter fraud,\u201d Meadows told CBS \u201cThis Morning\u201d anchor Anthony Mason. \u201cThis is a very different case. The rules are being changed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_A._Wray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Wray<\/a>: lawyer (Yale Law School), extensive government experience as a prosecutor and in national security roles. <em>Resources<\/em>: <strong>The entire fucking<\/strong> <strong><em>FBI<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Meadows_(North_Carolina_politician)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Meadows<\/a>: Current Trump Chief of Staff; former member of the House of Representatives, representing North Carolina (7 years), no relevant experience in national security; small business owner (he ran a small restaurant, real estate development company). <em>Resources<\/em>: <strong>His fellow barstool blowhard, President Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who are you gonna believe, the guy with no experience, but blown about by political imperatives and his own ego, or the reality-grounded lawyer with scads of resources?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be funny, if it wasn&#8217;t so important to get this right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TPM notes a clash between an expert and a &#8230; barstool blowhard: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows lashed out at FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2019s testimony to Congress in which the FBI leader\u00a0rejected\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s bogus conspiracy theory that mail-in voting can and will lead to election fraud that \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/25\/because-i-know-better\/\"> Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30677","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\/30677","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=30677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30678,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions\/30678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}