{"id":179413,"date":"2018-02-16T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/16\/cowardly-pissant\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:27:00","slug":"cowardly-pissant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/16\/cowardly-pissant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowardly Pissant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing an Obama order limiting firearms access to people with psychological issues.<\/p>\n<p>Now that someone has murdered 17 people at a high school, his administration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-43088644\">refusing to release a photo of his signing the order<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The White House has refused to release a photo of President Donald Trump signing a law making it easier for some people with mental illness to buy guns.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Despite repeated requests from CBS News, the White House press office has issued only a one-line response.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Trump last year repealed an Obama-era rule allowing the names of certain people on mental health benefits to be entered into a criminal database.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The controversy follows a shooting by a suspect who had mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>CBS News says it requested a copy of the image &#8211; which White House photographers confirm exists &#8211; 12 separate times by phone or email.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders has only said in a note dated 19 April 2017: &#8220;We don&#8217;t plan to release the picture at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBS News asked the White House again on Thursday to release the photo, but has not received a response.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He really is a chicken sh%$, isn&#8217;t he.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing an Obama order limiting firearms access to people with psychological issues. Now that someone has murdered 17 people at a high school, his administration is refusing to release a photo of his signing the order: The White House has refused to release a photo of President &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":[585,573,531,387,403],"class_list":["post-179413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cowardice","tag-donald-trump","tag-gun-laws","tag-hypocrisy","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179413"}],"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=179413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}