{"id":5604,"date":"2017-02-15T06:25:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2017-02-15T06:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T11:25:52","slug":"death-by-a-thousand-cuts-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5604","title":{"rendered":"Death by a thousand cuts, II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the 24-hour news cycle in combination with the Internet has sped things up, anybody who recalls the Watergate scandal must be experiencing a disquieting sense of <i>deja vu<\/i> just now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The daily drip-drip-drip of new information, which &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Contradicts what was said yesterday, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The fierce attacks against news outlets and critics, accompanied by &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>An accelerating list of defections.<\/ul>\n<p>As I said immediately after the election and have said ever since, that was Trump&#8217;s high-water mark; now, the tide goes only &#8230; out.<\/p>\n<p>Late last evening, the <i>New York Times<\/i> and <i>Washington Post<\/i>, followed by <i>CNN<\/i>, began reporting that there were <i><u>regular contacts<\/u><\/i> between Russian intelligence and the Trump campaign during 2016.  There is only one sane understanding of it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Donald Trump knowingly colluded with an enemy of the United States to defame and disrupt his opponent and win the election, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Assured Putin that the sanctions imposed by Obama would be lifted outright or not enforced.<\/ul>\n<p>There are still some dots that need connecting, but the outline is plain enough.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe Trump will last.  I suspect his vanity will insist upon the turmoil of impeachment and trial rather than a quick resignation, but I am quite certain that he will be forced from office.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare for President Pence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the 24-hour news cycle in combination with the Internet has sped things up, anybody who recalls the Watergate scandal must be experiencing a disquieting sense of deja vu just now. The daily drip-drip-drip of new information, which &#8230; Contradicts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5604\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604"}],"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=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}