{"id":12708,"date":"2019-06-22T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2019-06-22T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:07:15","slug":"trump-refuses-to-take-the-bait-mullahs-and-democrats-hoped-he-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-refuses-to-take-the-bait-mullahs-and-democrats-hoped-he-would\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump refuses to take the bait mullahs (and Democrats) hoped he would"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Obama made a desperate and terrible deal with Iran &#8211; Gave them 150 Billion Dollars plus I.8 Billion Dollars in CASH! Iran was in big trouble and he bailed them out. Gave them a free path to Nuclear Weapons, and SOON. Instead of saying thank you, Iran yelled&#8230;..<\/p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1142055375186907136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>==========================<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>American Thinker<\/strong>, by Thomas Lifson &#8212; June 21, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Because  the first law of progressive politics today is &#8220;Thou shalt say nothing  positive about Donald Trump,&#8221; few if any on the Left are hailing his  holding off on attacking Iran in retaliation for shooting down an armed  drone as statesmanlike restraint.\u00a0\u00a0Citing an anonymous &#8220;senior  administration official,&#8221; The\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-us-drone.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0reported last night: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>President  Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing  an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on  Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The  shared goal of the mullahs and the Democrats was to create a no-win  situation for the president: if he attacks Iran, he risks being drawn  into a shooting war, a move that is not likely to be popular and could  easily cost him his re-election.\u00a0\u00a0It could also very likely drive a  wedge between the United States and its allies that are cooperating in  the sanctions against Iran that are seriously hurting it.\u00a0\u00a0That is the  mullahs&#8217; goal, and they are more than happy to risk loss of life and  facilities in order to achieve it. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/trump_refuses_to_take_the_bait_mullahs_and_democrats_hoped_he_would_.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/trump_refuses_to_take_the_bait_mullahs_and_democrats_hoped_he_would_.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>========================== American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson &#8212; June 21, 2019 Excerpts: Because the first law of progressive politics today is &#8220;Thou shalt say nothing positive about Donald Trump,&#8221; few if any on the Left are hailing his holding off on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/trump-refuses-to-take-the-bait-mullahs-and-democrats-hoped-he-would\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12709,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}