{"id":131201,"date":"2016-08-03T21:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/from-moscow-with-love.html"},"modified":"2016-08-03T21:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:01:58","slug":"from-moscow-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/from-moscow-with-love.html","title":{"rendered":"From Moscow with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s not so much that the Trump campaign pushed &#8212; while leaving rest of the other GOP platform alone &#8212; to defang an anti-Russian pro-Ukranian plank, but that they are so insistent that they didn&#39;t do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/03\/trump-campaign-changed-ukraine-platform-lied-about-it.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/beG_iCEeWTjRjR_l8LUAP6pmvoBEvjBiyr6xAvKAIMHkRnr_zjjEqhMNl3PtkKxiaUNBPsWo0FL8i42XAZW1OkYuCESgrRxCLc3Xf-TTQjh-sBMChGKBWz_CXZQGzczf11JdUFkV0Ri3pDB77Eci2j22UyBaRHhvRVHOHYoUuoegqa55ndBkCjZJNqTw3jja0Xb34SCmpxtV8T63CTVyqBFzgVXQQQuOnY9CHT65-_M2cRbtAPGwz6hjI2fXnoxbyCI=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/03\/trump-campaign-changed-ukraine-platform-lied-about-it.html'>Trump Campaign Changed Ukraine Platform, Lied About It<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTop Trump aide Paul Manafort swore that the campaign had nothing to do with a radical change in the official Republican Party position on Ukraine. He was lying.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/YVkjDnFkg1n'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s not so much that the Trump campaign pushed &#8212; while leaving rest of the other GOP platform alone &#8212; to defang an anti-Russian pro-Ukranian plank, but that they are so insistent that they didn&#39;t do it. Trump Campaign Changed Ukraine Platform, Lied About It Top Trump aide Paul Manafort swore that the campaign had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/from-moscow-with-love.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Moscow with Love&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131135,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/yuge-donations-yuge.html","url_meta":{"origin":131201,"position":0},"title":"Yuge donations! 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