{"id":132973,"date":"2017-03-03T17:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T00:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/03\/the-death-of-thousand-untrue-cuts.html"},"modified":"2017-03-03T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T00:14:36","slug":"the-death-of-thousand-untrue-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/03\/the-death-of-thousand-untrue-cuts.html","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Thousand Untrue Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because here's the thing: the evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government over the election in 2016 is merely suggestive. It's flimsy. It would never stand up in court. At least nothing that's been publicly revealed.<\/p>\n

But what is<\/i> true is a non-stop series of lies and prevarications from Trump and his team over contacts with Russia, or actions taken regarding Russia. None of them are big lies, or deal-breaking lies, or smoking-gun lies. What they are is intriguing<\/i> lies, because there's little reason to make them. <\/p>\n

"Oh, I never contacted the Russians, never, ever ever." Except that it keeps turning out they did — quite possibly innocuously, but by lying about it or "forgetting" about it, or , it just raises suspicions, over and over and over.<\/p>\n

"No, none of us in any way shape or form ever influenced the platform committee about providing arms to Ukraine." Except more and more people keep providing evidence that they did, all the way from the top. It's a little action that, by Team Trump's secrecy and then its lies keep making it a bigger and bigger deal.<\/p>\n

They act<\/i> guilty. Even if pure as the driven snow, they are acting in a fashion that is almost calculated to make them look guilty as sin, and in a way that even a full exoneration after an open and public investigation would never make fully believable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\n
\n<\/a>
\nTrump’s Untruths About Russia Are Piling Up – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nThe need for Congress to figure out why he and his team keep misleading the public about Russia grows more urgent by the day, even if they are ultimately exonerated.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because here's the thing: the evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government over the election in 2016 is merely suggestive. It's flimsy. It would never stand up in court. At least nothing that's been publicly revealed. But what is true is a non-stop series of lies and prevarications from Trump and … Continue reading “The Death of Thousand Untrue Cuts”<\/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-132973","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":136537,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/lies-damn-lies-and-quotations-by-donald-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":132973,"position":0},"title":"Lies, Damn Lies, and Quotations by Donald Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-May-18 7:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The headline caught my eye because of \"quotations\" and my passion about them.\u00a0Sadly enough, it's just another story of Trump misquoting people, then getting publicly outraged by what he's misquoted them as saying. Trump outraged about quote he made up Desperate times, desperate measures. View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-waving.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":137359,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/lies-damn-lies-and-trump-being-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":132973,"position":1},"title":"Lies, Damn Lies, and "Trump Being Trump"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-18 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A factoid for those who repeat Trump's assertions that he got military personnel either the only or the biggest pay raise they'd received in a decade. (Spoiler: he didn't. Not even the second biggest raise. Dubya and Obama both have him beat.) Trump's claims of largest raise for troops counter\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131639,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/lies-damned-lies-and-trump-utterances.html","url_meta":{"origin":132973,"position":2},"title":"Lies, Damned Lies, and Trump Utterances","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Sep-16 6:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Four fact-checking reviewed by the LA Times, the NY Times, the Washington Post, and Politico of Trump's fact-challenged statements of over a limited period.They all come to the same conclusion, as summed up by the center-right Politico:'We subjected every statement made by both the Republican and Democratic candidates \u2014 in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131270,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/trump-lies-over-and-over-again-under-oath.html","url_meta":{"origin":132973,"position":3},"title":"Trump lies. Over and over again. Under oath","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Aug-16 8:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not to say it's compulsive. Or neurotic. Or that he doesn't understand the difference between falsehood and reality. Or even that he confuses \"the truth\" with \"what makes me look good.\"He just lies. That's simple enough. It's in the court records. It's in his testimony. He lies to avoid financial\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137498,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/lies-damn-lies-and-pretty-much-whatever-donald-says.html","url_meta":{"origin":132973,"position":4},"title":"Lies, damn lies, and pretty much whatever Donald says","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Dec-18 10:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, I know, pointing out that Donald Trump is lying is sort of like noting that the sun has risen. But it's still worth calling out that the blatancy and self-aggrandizement of Donald's whoppers remain gobsmacking in magnitude and circumstance, and are neither normal nor should they be accepted as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137169,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/13\/tweetizen-trump-2018-09-13-lies-damn-lies-and-donald-trump-tweets.html","url_meta":{"origin":132973,"position":5},"title":"Tweetizen Trump – 2018-09-13 – Lies, Damn Lies, and Donald Trump Tweets","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-18 8:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"This week, Donald Trump tried to portray himself as the Hero of Puerto Rico, lauding FEMA and the federal governments response to Hurricane Maria as the \"best ever,\" maybe even better than the \"A+\" grades he got for the hurricanes that hit Texas and Florida.His style got crimped a bit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}