{"id":180893,"date":"2016-11-30T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/30\/how-unsurprising\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:38:00","slug":"how-unsurprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/30\/how-unsurprising\/","title":{"rendered":"How Unsurprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fresh on statements that he would not attempt to have Hillary Clinton prosecuted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/368406-trump-foreign-governments-clinton-foundation\/\">Donald Trump is contacting foreign governments to pressure them to investigate the Clinton Foundation<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">While President-elect Donald Trump earlier announced a U-turn on investigating Hillary Clinton, he is now reportedly planning to pressure foreign governments to look into the finances of the Clinton Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>During one of the campaign debates, Trump said once he is in the oval office he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton\u2019s alleged misgivings, including the use of a private email server and involvement in the Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;d be in jail,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/362193-trump-clinton-debate-jabs\/\">warned<\/a> his rival if he were to win the election.<\/p>\n<p>After his election victory he made a U-turn on the threat. But according to the New York Post, the Trump administration would pressure foreign governments to investigate the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He gets to look magnanimous, and he gets to look shocked when he is &#8220;Forced&#8221; by new facts uncovered by foreign governments to go after a possible rival.<\/p>\n<p>How convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh on statements that he would not attempt to have Hillary Clinton prosecuted, Donald Trump is contacting foreign governments to pressure them to investigate the Clinton Foundation: While President-elect Donald Trump earlier announced a U-turn on investigating Hillary Clinton, he is now reportedly planning to pressure foreign governments to look into the finances of the &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":[761,762,815,807,816,824],"class_list":["post-180893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-relations","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180893"}],"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=180893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}