{"id":29032,"date":"2017-08-17T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29032"},"modified":"2017-08-17T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T21:18:14","slug":"a-view-from-the-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/17\/a-view-from-the-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"A View from the Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I have very little to add to this piece.\u00a0 Please click through and read it in it&#8217;s entirety.\u00a0 Trump picked Dowd as his personal lawyer, because they share the same world view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Breaking: Trump condemned Islamic terrorist attack in Barcelona and insinuated that the &#8216;radical Islamic terrorists&#8217; should be executed with cartridges soaked in pigs&#8217; blood.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"0817KKKTrump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0817KKKTrump.jpg\" alt=\"0817KKKTrump\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that <strong>echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda<\/strong> and <strong>declared that the group Black Lives Matter \u201chas been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The email forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the president\u2019s legal team, painted the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in glowing terms and <strong>equated the South\u2019s rebellion to that of the American Revolution against England<\/strong>. Its subject line \u2014 \u201cThe Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville\u201d \u2014 was a reference to comments Mr. Trump made earlier this week in the aftermath of protests in the Virginia college town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington<\/strong>,\u201d the email reads, \u201c<strong>there literally is no difference between the two men<\/strong>.\u201d&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-lawyer-email-race-charlottesville.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s enough to make me want to puke!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have very little to add to this piece.\u00a0 Please click through and read it in it&#8217;s entirety.\u00a0 Trump picked Dowd as his personal lawyer, because they share the same world view. Breaking: Trump condemned Islamic terrorist attack in Barcelona and insinuated that the &#8216;radical Islamic terrorists&#8217; should be executed with cartridges soaked in pigs&#8217; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/17\/a-view-from-the-reich\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}