{"id":15728,"date":"2016-08-13T17:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15728"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:25:28","slug":"trump-cant-retreat-into-safety-for-some-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/08\/13\/trump-cant-retreat-into-safety-for-some-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"trump can&#8217;t retreat into safety for some reason&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"121\" data-total-count=\"5476\">Radio host Hugh Hewitt trying to offer Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump the conservative interpretation of what he means by calling Obama the &#8220;founder of ISIS&#8221;, and Trump&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/12\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-obama-isis.html?_r=0\">not able to take it<\/a>.<br \/>\nI can imagine a similar scenario where a sympathetic voice in the media is giving a Democratic politician the interpretation for some heightened rhetoric about George W Bush.\u00c2\u00a0 Would, oh, Alan Grayson take it, instead of waiting around to declare &#8220;SARCASM&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><em>Later, in an interview with the radio host Hugh Hewitt, Mr. Trump was given an opportunity to clarify, but did not budge.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Hewitt suggested, leaving Mr. Trump an opening.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, I meant he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the founder of ISIS. I do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Trump said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Mr. Hewitt replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not sympathetic to them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d referring to President Obama. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He hates them. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to kill them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Trump said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was the founder. His, the way he got out of Iraq was that, that was the founding of ISIS, O.K.?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"121\" data-total-count=\"5476\">I suppose it comes when you&#8217;re arguing for a Fortress America model, making jabs at Isolationist sentiment.\u00c2\u00a0 And it comes when your big foray into political discourse in the past decade came in challenging the President to show his birth certificate, and so you&#8217;re working that base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio host Hugh Hewitt trying to offer Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump the conservative interpretation of what he means by calling Obama the &#8220;founder of ISIS&#8221;, and Trump&#8230; not able to take it. I can imagine a similar scenario where a sympathetic voice in the media is giving a Democratic politician the interpretation for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15729,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions\/15729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}