{"id":28,"date":"2018-08-04T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:15:45","slug":"the-truth-about-the-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/04\/the-truth-about-the-witch-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about the &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Trump keeps claiming that the investigation into Russian interference in the election and his campaign&#8217;s possible ties to it is a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some facts:<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Michael Cohen claimed that Trump was aware of the meeting that Don Jr held with Russian lawyers in Trump Tower on June 9, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Monday of this week, Rudy Giuliani said there was a SECOND meeting with Cohen and everyone involved &#8211; except Trump &#8211; that took place 2 days prior to the June 9th meeting, in which they discussed how they would handle the Russian meeting. This is also the same day in which Trump made a speech in which he promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. Rudy couldn&#8217;t remember all the names of the people in the meeting, but he was very adamant that Trump did not know about it.<\/p>\n<p>Then later on Monday, Rudy Giuliani calls into Fox News to then say that the second meeting never happened. The Fox News hosts were confused &#8211; as we all were &#8211; about Rudy mentioning that there was no second meeting, but that if there *was*, Trump wouldn&#8217;t have known anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>And so *this* is the reason why there is a Russia investigation. No one can keep a story straight. Hell, even Rudy Giuliani can&#8217;t keep his own stories straight!<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, there is a truth. This is why Robert Mueller was picked to lead an investigation. Trump can keep calling it a witch hunt, but the fact is that as long as his team keeps telling these inconsistent stories, we&#8217;re going to need an investigation into what really happened with his campaign and their ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The more the President calls it a witch hunt &#8211; and the more his team keeps bringing up these inconsistent alibis &#8211; the more he keeps proving the need for an independent investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Trump keeps claiming that the investigation into Russian interference in the election and his campaign&#8217;s possible ties to it is a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221; Here are some facts: Last week, Michael Cohen claimed that Trump was aware of the meeting that Don Jr held with Russian lawyers in Trump Tower on June 9, 2016. Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/04\/the-truth-about-the-witch-hunt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Truth about the &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rantsinyourpants.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}