{"id":135622,"date":"2017-12-12T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T22:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135622"},"modified":"2017-12-12T22:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T05:47:32","slug":"vigorously-denying-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/vigorously-denying-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vigorously Denying President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23metoo\" rel=\"nofollow\">#metoo<\/a> resurgence of accusations against sexual misconductors has led to a resurgence of previously made accusations against Donald Trump. These were mostly raised during the presidential campaign (and indirectly supported by Trump&#8217;s reprehensible Access Hollywood tape), but amidst general disbelief that Trump would get anywhere near the White House, they eventually became he-said-she-said charges that people believed or disbelieved as they chose to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Now with a number of people being hounded from office or their jobs for past improprieties, the women who accused Trump across the decades are in the spotlight again. The White House claims that eyewitnesses have debunked these sundry charges, but, in fact, <i>the eyewitness information provided by the White House itself<\/i> really does no such thing.<\/p>\n<p>Not that that proves anything, but it&#8217;s indicative of how the White House will simply lie in order to get people to stop paying attention to something Trump finds irksome. Which does make one wonder what else they will lie (or are lying) about.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/12\/12\/a-running-list-of-the-eyewitnesses-who-prove-trumps-innocence-on-sexual-misconduct\/?utm_term=.fbc273a49405\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qjym05L9Z_ubpZDo3sAsPf7uu1hJDKTDLYy6y7x-HuIJOeJN7nahXrtzkMFfImjdAHQiD2yyYxeNnyRiHPC2JB_3fnju_6tNPTgxKnhT2pyxRT1n-5CQjReDjoTd1gme5UeurDXfJbuvbfIl-JN4Nxdk9kbr0p7nu2yfHmThJRpqutzXHWg6eAp-7VhZ0F8_itD6jz7cNWbijFJTTk520Q=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/12\/12\/a-running-list-of-the-eyewitnesses-who-prove-trumps-innocence-on-sexual-misconduct\/?utm_term=.fbc273a49405\">A running list of the eyewitnesses who prove Trump\u2019s innocence on sexual misconduct &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTracking a promise from the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Ns4ngC4H753\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #metoo resurgence of accusations against sexual misconductors has led to a resurgence of previously made accusations against Donald Trump. These were mostly raised during the presidential campaign (and indirectly supported by Trump&#8217;s reprehensible Access Hollywood tape), but amidst general disbelief that Trump would get anywhere near the White House, they eventually became he-said-she-said charges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/vigorously-denying-president.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Vigorously Denying President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135625,"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":[106,1071,348],"tags":[1342,1077],"class_list":["post-135622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-trump","category-women","tag-metoo","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sarah-Huckabee-Sanders-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131761,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/sex-lies-and-presidential-debates.html","url_meta":{"origin":135622,"position":0},"title":"Sex, Lies, and Presidential Debates","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Oct-16 8:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"The recent bits and bobs about what a creep (and worse) Trump is with women, or talking about them, came up at the beginning of the debates last night. Which was good for Clinton, because that's when Trump was at his most subdued. 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His tweeting and public rhetoric not only ignores the Streisand Effect, but validates every point that Comey makes about his personality. 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I'm not going to ding Rachel Maddow for doing her normal deep dive 20\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131998,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/whos-responsible-for-trump-winning.html","url_meta":{"origin":135622,"position":3},"title":"Who&#039;s responsible for Trump winning?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Nov-16 11:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's about 50% of what I've been reading today (the other 50% has been mourning \/ panicking \/ raging stuff). The trick here is that there is (like in most things in Real Life) no easy, simple, finger-pointable-at factor, but a load of things that led to the result. 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