{"id":177263,"date":"2019-11-08T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/08\/burying-the-lede-3\/"},"modified":"2019-11-08T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T00:24:00","slug":"burying-the-lede-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/08\/burying-the-lede-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying the Lede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the <i>Washington Post<\/i> has an article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/11\/07\/four-big-facts-that-blow-up-gops-latest-defense-trump\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Four big facts that blow up the GOP\u2019s latest defense of Trump<\/span><\/b><\/a>, and the 4<sup>th<\/sup> fact should be the bloody headline, on page 1 in 72 point bold:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>Pence directly delivered the message about suspended aid to Ukraine.<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Sept. 1, the same day Sondland informed a top Zelensky aide that the military aid was conditional, Vice President Pence met with Zelensky.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/context-cdn.washingtonpost.com\/notes\/prod\/default\/documents\/475e5eae-ce3f-4cf6-831a-1d88ca3cbc03\/note\/be461469-4581-4671-8ada-c9fa1dd1890d.pdf?tid=lk_inline_manual_34\">raised<\/a> the withheld aid with Pence. And as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/trump-involved-pence-in-efforts-to-pressure-ukraines-leader-though-aides-say-vice-president-was-unaware-of-pursuit-of-dirt-on-bidens\/2019\/10\/02\/263aa9e2-e4a7-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_34\">The Post reports<\/a>, Pence informed Zelensky that the administration was \u201cstill looking at\u201d the aid, i.e., it was on hold. Pence also told Zelensky he needed to do more to fight \u201ccorruption.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Mike Pence&nbsp; is a co-conspirator.<\/p>\n<p>One hopes that the House looks into this in a through manner.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t mind a few months of President Pelosi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Washington Post has an article titled Four big facts that blow up the GOP\u2019s latest defense of Trump, and the 4th fact should be the bloody headline, on page 1 in 72 point bold: \u2026\u2026\u2026Pence directly delivered the message about suspended aid to Ukraine.On Sept. 1, the same day Sondland informed a top &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-177263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177263"}],"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=177263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}