{"id":3205,"date":"2016-03-02T20:18:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2016-03-02T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:18:07","slug":"race-2016-donald-trump-ctd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/03\/02\/race-2016-donald-trump-ctd-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Race 2016: Donald Trump, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Mr. Trump<\/a>\u00a0continues to steamroll his opponents, Benjamin Wittes<\/a> of Lawfare<\/strong><\/em> expresses<\/a> his disgust with the candidate:<\/p>\n

Fourth, even as he endeavors to undo the Bush and Obama administrations\u2019 commitment to separating this country\u2019s engagement with Islam from its struggle with its enemies. Trump openly flirts with America\u2019s actual adversaries. I don\u2019t know what to make of his repeated kind words for Russian President Vladimir Putin, but I think it\u2019s fair to say that Trump has compromised himself with them. He has shown that for all his tough talk, at least where dictators are concerned, he\u2019s actually a bit like a loud barking dog who dissolves in slobbery affection the moment some treat or praise gets thrown his way. Putin is not a fool. He has noticed, I\u2019m sure, that he has gained a would-be client strongman in Trump, and that he has bought him unbelievably cheaply. He has noticed, I am also sure, that with only a modest amount of public ego stroking\u2014a few stray words, really\u2014he bought himself an ally at the top of the GOP field. He has had to pay a lot more, hard cash actually, for his European political allies. Trump likes to boast of the great deals he makes, but he sold himself to Putin for a pittance\u2014and that has national security implications too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect a cartoon of Trump being Putin’s butt-monkey might be in order. Oh, wait, my Arts Editor has something handy…<\/p>\n

\"Putin,<\/a><\/p>\n

Our thanks to South Park<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Mr. Trump\u00a0continues to steamroll his opponents, Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare expresses his disgust with the candidate: Fourth, even as he endeavors to undo the Bush and Obama administrations\u2019 commitment to separating this country\u2019s engagement with Islam from its struggle with its enemies. Trump openly flirts with America\u2019s actual adversaries. \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-3205","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\/3205","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=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}