{"id":135352,"date":"2017-11-11T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135352"},"modified":"2017-11-13T07:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:13:40","slug":"really-dumb-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/11\/really-dumb-hope.html","title":{"rendered":"Is he really this dumb, or does he hope we are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Putin pinky swear, Mr. President? Did he pinky swear?<\/em><\/p>\n


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\nTrump Says Putin \u2018Means It\u2019 About Not Meddling in U.S. Elections<\/a><\/span>
\nPresident Trump said, \u201cEvery time he sees me he says, \u2018I didn\u2019t do that,\u2019 and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Did Putin pinky swear, Mr. President? Did he pinky swear? Trump Says Putin \u2018Means It\u2019 About Not Meddling in U.S. Elections President Trump said, \u201cEvery time he sees me he says, \u2018I didn\u2019t do that,\u2019 and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.\u201d View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135353,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,10,1071],"tags":[1317,1077],"class_list":["post-135352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-putin","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129157,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/putin-loves-trump-of-course.html","url_meta":{"origin":135352,"position":0},"title":"Putin loves Trump. 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