{"id":30828,"date":"2012-10-24T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/bumshell.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:20:30","slug":"bumshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/bumshell.html","title":{"rendered":"Bumshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This? \u00a0_This_ is The Donald&#39;s &quot;October Surprise&quot; &quot;bombshell&quot; that will &quot;change everything&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>Trump offers to write a $5 million check to whatever charity(ies) Obama wishes if Obama hands over (to The Donald&#39;s satisfaction) all his college records, college applications, passport applications, etc., by the 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Given that folks on the Right have been agitating for this stuff (and whatever other scraps of paper they can collect about Obama) as part of a variety of spooky conspiracy theories for <i>years,<\/i> the only thing &quot;new&quot; here is that Trump is making it all about himself and his conditional charitable largesse. \u00a0And \u00a0making things all about himself is, in fact, nothing new for Trump.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><iframe type='text\/html' width='97.5%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MgOq9pBkY0I?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cuQHC6zcM3q' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This? \u00a0_This_ is The Donald&#39;s &quot;October Surprise&quot; &quot;bombshell&quot; that will &quot;change everything&quot;? Trump offers to write a $5 million check to whatever charity(ies) Obama wishes if Obama hands over (to The Donald&#39;s satisfaction) all his college records, college applications, passport applications, etc., by the 31st. Given that folks on the Right have been agitating for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/bumshell.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bumshell&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,99,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-media-performers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137498,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/lies-damn-lies-and-pretty-much-whatever-donald-says.html","url_meta":{"origin":30828,"position":0},"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 &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":137580,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/donald-trump-the-pro-soviet-invasion-of-afghanistan-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":30828,"position":1},"title":"Donald Trump, the Pro-Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan President","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Jan-19 11:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some days you just can't make this stuff up.'In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded neighboring Afghanistan. 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