{"id":40234,"date":"2024-05-10T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40234"},"modified":"2024-05-10T14:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:23:51","slug":"historical-ignorance-is-not-a-good-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/05\/10\/historical-ignorance-is-not-a-good-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Ignorance Is Not A Good Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, but this has been bouncing around in my skull for a while:<\/p>\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story summary-middle\">\n<div class=\"container__row container__row--story story-layout--fixed-fluid\">\n<div class=\"container__column container__column--story center-horizontally\">\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Entering the fourth week of his hush-money trial in New York, Donald Trump over the weekend sharply escalated his attacks on the justice system, telling donors at a private event in Florida that President Joe Biden is \u201crunning a Gestapo administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">His remarks came just days after the former president was\u00a0<a class=\" js-tealium-tracking \" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/04\/30\/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial\/trump-held-in-contempt-00155109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\" aria-label=\"held in criminal contempt (opens in a new window)\">held in criminal contempt<\/a>\u00a0in New York for violating a judge\u2019s gag order, and with the ongoing proceedings in the case constraining him for four days each week to a New York courtroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Pinned down in that trial \u2014 and facing dozens of criminal charges in four separate cases altogether \u2014 Trump is increasingly casting himself as the victim of the judicial system.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/05\/trump-retreat-biden-2024-elections-00156171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If this were true, then Trump wouldn&#8217;t be around to breathlessly complain about it. Instead, we&#8217;d find Trump&#8217;s body in an anonymous alley somewhere, the side of his head blown off.<\/p>\n<p>Or he might have been an hour for a military tribunal, followed by a ritualistic execution by firing squad. That&#8217;s how the Gestapo operated.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s still around. Getting a trial, with a jury, watched over by the press and everything. Hell, press who find him useful even lie about the trial. What more does the poor <del>baby<\/del> guy want?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, God has no sympathy for you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, but this has been bouncing around in my skull for a while: Entering the fourth week of his hush-money trial in New York, Donald Trump over the weekend sharply escalated his attacks on the justice system, telling donors at a private event in Florida that President Joe Biden is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/05\/10\/historical-ignorance-is-not-a-good-look\/\"> 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-40234","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\/40234","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=40234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40235,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40234\/revisions\/40235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}