{"id":175618,"date":"2021-01-08T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/08\/why-the-resignations\/"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T22:51:00","slug":"why-the-resignations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/08\/why-the-resignations\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Resignations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me a cynic, but I think that the reason that so many Trump administration cabinet member have chosen to resign is that they don&#8217;t want to be on the record making a decision about removing Donald Trump under the provisions of the 25<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>They think that participating in that would be disastrous for their future careers.<\/p>\n<p>I know that you are probably thinking, &#8220;Future careers, surely you jest,&#8221; but let me show you Richard M. Nixon&#8217;s &#8220;last&#8221; press conference, which he gave in 1962:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_RMSb-tS_OM\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><br \/>Much like a bad penny, these folks will be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me a cynic, but I think that the reason that so many Trump administration cabinet member have chosen to resign is that they don&#8217;t want to be on the record making a decision about removing Donald Trump under the provisions of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution. They think that participating in that would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,364,387,374],"class_list":["post-175618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}