{"id":131485,"date":"2016-09-09T00:27:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/the-truth-is-not-a-bully.html"},"modified":"2016-09-09T00:27:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:27:37","slug":"the-truth-is-not-a-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/the-truth-is-not-a-bully.html","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Is Not a Bully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be unpleasant. It may be annoying. It may be enraging. But the Truth is not a bully. It is Juggernaut, rolling steadily forward, and running over anyone who tries to get in its way.<\/p>\n<p>All attempts by Florida AG Pam Bondi to turn her campaign fund solicitation from Donald Trump while deciding whether to investigate Trump University, and subsequent sizeable donation and dropping of the investigation, into some weird &quot;Hillary Clinton is being mean to me, waugh!&quot; riff, are self-serving twaddle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/taking-names-scott-maxwell\/os-bondi-says-clinton-bullied-her-here-are-the-facts-20160907-story.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/MqfqeOvj6CpGi0lWL7jX0dHNXhW9eFh63xhaTcICQ_iYTEWistugXD_UHBu-D0JvLdy5Aqd3eEU_QHY9cbsN-oHJ4EvbRVvIAqVN3Tt4Fe2V7SeHU0Qamc1GLCcbS-lhwzpwpyFyonCAZeJI1B-FGgthlSnqxO5L=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/taking-names-scott-maxwell\/os-bondi-says-clinton-bullied-her-here-are-the-facts-20160907-story.html'>Bondi says Hillary Clinton &#8216;bullied&#8217; her: Here are the facts<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLast night, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi went on Fox Business to claim that Hillary Clinton was trying to bully her by sullying Bondi&rsquo;s good name in connection with the Trump University mess.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Ajp82bTTbV1'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be unpleasant. It may be annoying. It may be enraging. But the Truth is not a bully. It is Juggernaut, rolling steadily forward, and running over anyone who tries to get in its way. All attempts by Florida AG Pam Bondi to turn her campaign fund solicitation from Donald Trump while deciding whether &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/the-truth-is-not-a-bully.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Truth Is Not a Bully&#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-131485","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":131949,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/when-lawyers-fear-the-possible-future-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":131485,"position":0},"title":"When lawyers fear the (possible future) president","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Nov-16 6:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, yeah, everyone hates lawyers. 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