{"id":12947,"date":"2021-01-05T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2021-01-05T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:53:03","slug":"delusional-tweet-of-the-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12947","title":{"rendered":"Delusional tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1346488314157797389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No.  The electors were certified by their respective states, and Vice-president Pence does not have the power to alter that; his role tomorrow is purely ceremonial.<\/p>\n<p>Surely there are people around Trump who can tell him that?  Or he has heard that said by some Constitutional scholar on television?<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing to believe here but that Trump is deliberately sowing confusion.  But why?  No explanation presents itself but that he hopes to ride an enraged mob to a second term.  Tomorrow, then, when D.C. is expected to host a slew of demonstrations, will be a critical day for the life of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing to believe here but that Trump is deliberately sowing confusion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12947\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}