{"id":181534,"date":"2016-05-27T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/27\/trump-wimps-out\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T23:39:00","slug":"trump-wimps-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/27\/trump-wimps-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wimps Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/05\/bernie-sanders-ridicules-tough-guy-trump-for-ducking-debate-what-are-you-afraid-of\/\">not going to debate Bernie Sanders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a bemused response on Friday to Donald Trump\u2019s decision to back out of a suggested debate between the two.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWell, Mr. Trump, what are you afraid of?\u201d the Democratic candidate said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sanders said reporters were the first to inform him that Trump pulled out of the prospective debate, shortly after a tech firm offered to put up the $10 million donation the presumptive Republican presidential nominee had named as a condition.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cMr. Trump comes across as a big tough guy,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cIf you\u2019re so tough, let\u2019s sit down and have that debate.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s a punk and a wimp, and Sanders called him out as such.<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now he&#8217;s not going to debate Bernie Sanders: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a bemused response on Friday to Donald Trump\u2019s decision to back out of a suggested debate between the two.\u201cWell, Mr. Trump, what are you afraid of?\u201d the Democratic candidate said.Sanders said reporters were the first to inform him that Trump pulled out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,963,978,977,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-donald-trump","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181534"}],"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=181534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}