{"id":9935,"date":"2017-06-16T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9935"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:59:34","slug":"whimsical-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/06\/16\/whimsical-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Whimsical Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen on <em><strong>Maddowblog<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/trumps-second-term-curse-starts-surprisingly-early\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discusses<\/a> the recent announcement that President Trump is now the subject of an FBI investment and triggers a disrespectful thought in my mind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, going into this year, only two American presidents have ever been the subject of federal criminal inquiries &#8212; Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton &#8212; and both ran into trouble in their second terms.<\/p>\n<p>This small club, however, now has a new member, with Donald Trump facing his own criminal investigation. Time will tell what becomes of the ongoing federal probe, but MSNBC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriMelber\/status\/875411807401324544\">Ari Melber raised<\/a> an interesting numerical point yesterday: when Nixon first faced a criminal inquiry into his misconduct in office, he&#8217;d been president for 1,580 days. For Clinton, it was 1,835 days.<\/p>\n<p>For Trump, it was 145 days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So do you think Bill sent Donald a congratulatory telegram on his admission to the club? Maybe he even has a pin Trump can wear on his lapel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen on Maddowblog discusses the recent announcement that President Trump is now the subject of an FBI investment and triggers a disrespectful thought in my mind: In fact, going into this year, only two American presidents have ever been the subject of federal criminal inquiries &#8212; Richard Nixon and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/06\/16\/whimsical-clubs\/\"> 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-9935","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\/9935","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=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9936,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions\/9936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}