{"id":9449,"date":"2018-12-21T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T15:17:42","slug":"with-friends-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9449","title":{"rendered":"With friends like this &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is citing this morning the support of a former Army general for his decision to remove troops from Syria.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">General Anthony Tata, author, \u201cDark Winter.\u201d I think the President is making the exact right move in Syria. All the geniuses who are protesting the withdrawal of troops from Syria are the same geniuses who cooked the books on ISIS intelligence and gave rise to ISIS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1076127773444526080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Who, you are probably wondering, is Anthony Tata?<\/p>\n<p>Tarheels know.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article35852217.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Tata\u2019s Army career included phony court order, at least 2 affairs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony Tata\u2019s credentials as an Army leader helped him land big jobs as Wake County school superintendent and state transportation secretary, and the retired general continues to trade on his military experience as a TV news commentator and the author of action thrillers.<\/p>\n<p>But after Tata decided in June 2008 to retire from the Army, Pentagon officials were still asking questions about a mysterious, phony court document he had given investigators in 2007. An Army probe found that Tata had committed adultery with \u201cat least two\u201d women during his career, court and military records show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a handy rule-of-thumb: If the subject and the First Felon comprise a mutual admiration society, the subject has bad character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is citing this morning the support of a former Army general for his decision to remove troops from Syria. General Anthony Tata, author, \u201cDark Winter.\u201d I think the President is making the exact right move in Syria. All &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9449\">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\/9449"}],"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=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9453,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions\/9453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}