{"id":8925,"date":"2017-04-06T08:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2017-04-06T08:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:18:56","slug":"heres-your-list-of-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/06\/heres-your-list-of-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Your List Of Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently Benjamin Wittes of <em><strong>Lawfare<\/strong><\/em> is feeling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/i-believe\" target=\"_blank\">trifle frustrated<\/a> these days:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I believe there is nothing unusual about Trump\u2019s solicitude for Vladimir Putin. I believe that the whole Russia connection story is \u201cfake news\u201d designed to cover up an embarrassing electoral loss on the part of the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I believe there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/04\/politics\/donald-trump-russia-smoke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nothing unusual<\/a> about Michael Flynn\u2019s dealings with the Russian government. I believe there is nothing unusual about Carter Page\u2019s dealings with the Russian government. I believe there is nothing unusual about Paul Manafort\u2019s dealings with the Russian government. I believe there is nothing unusual about Roger Stone\u2019s dealings with the Russian government.\u00a0I believe there is nothing unusual about Russia&#8217;s setting up a secret line of communication to the Trump administration through Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and brother of a cabinet secretary. I believe there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/27\/politics\/kushner-meeting-russian-banker-tied-to-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nothing unusual<\/a> about Jared Kushner\u2019s meeting with a sanctioned Russian bank while working for his father-in-law\u2019s transition. I believe that kind of thing happens all the time in all transitions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And it goes on and on and on. In fact, it makes a handy list of all the unbelie- er, common-sense beliefs about our Commander-In-Chief.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stop staring into the fire, Ben. Sooner or later, a Republican will dare to demonstrate some backbone. (Oh, bad visuals of invertebrates legislating the law. Each wears a mask. I think the one wearing the <strong>Ryan<\/strong> mask is missing a limb or two. They all seem to be dancing at the Masque of the Red Death. Now it&#8217;s just a pile of masks. Wait, how&#8217;d I get here?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare is feeling a trifle frustrated these days: I believe there is nothing unusual about Trump\u2019s solicitude for Vladimir Putin. I believe that the whole Russia connection story is \u201cfake news\u201d designed to cover up an embarrassing electoral loss on the part of the Democrats. I \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/06\/heres-your-list-of-beliefs\/\"> 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-8925","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\/8925","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=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8935,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}