{"id":179901,"date":"2017-09-20T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/20\/now-which-pathological-liar-are-we-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T01:11:00","slug":"now-which-pathological-liar-are-we-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/20\/now-which-pathological-liar-are-we-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Which Pathological Liar Are We to Believe?*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has  <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/white-house-denies-erdogan-claim-trump-apologized-for-violence-protesters\">claimed that Donald Trump apologized for forcing Turkish security forces to attack unarmed protesters<\/a>, while the White House has denied this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The White House on Wednesday denied Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s claim that President Donald Trump called him to apologize for an incident in May where Turkish security agents allegedly attacked protesters in Washington.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A White House spokesman told the Hill late Tuesday that Trump and Erdogan \u201cdiscussed a wide range of issues but there was no apology.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not true,\u201d White House spokesperson Lindsay Walters said, according to BuzzFeed News reporter John Hudson.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Washington, D.C. police in June issued arrest warrants for nine Turkish security guards and three Turkish police officers accused of attacking protesters who gathered outside the Turkish ambassador\u2019s residence. A grand jury in August issued indictments for three more Turkish security officials charged with attacking protesters.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is seriously f%$#ed up.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Not my line.  It&#8217;s from the comments thread of the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has claimed that Donald Trump apologized for forcing Turkish security forces to attack unarmed protesters, while the White House has denied this: The White House on Wednesday denied Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s claim that President Donald Trump called him to apologize for an incident in May where Turkish security &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":[573,394,697,406,421,454],"class_list":["post-179901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-relations","tag-near-east","tag-stupid","tag-weird","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179901"}],"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=179901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}