{"id":5399,"date":"2017-06-25T15:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/25\/the-antithesis-of-obstruction\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T15:06:59","slug":"the-antithesis-of-obstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/25\/the-antithesis-of-obstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Antithesis of Obstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/node\/448940\/print\">Andrew C. McCarthy<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he \u201ccollusion\u201d narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won\u2019t take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth: Collusion\u2019s successor, the \u201cobstruction\u201d narrative, is a perversion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">[ . . .]<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">To be clear, the <em>Russia investigation<\/em> is not a fraud. The <em>Trump collusion narrative<\/em> is. Russia <em>did<\/em> try to interfere in our election, as it always does. And there were associates of Trump\u2019s who had business with Russian interests. Nothing unusual about that either. No one had shadier business with Kremlin cronies than Bill and Hillary Clinton. The difference is that the Clintons did collude in the Russian regime\u2019s acquisition of American uranium assets. There is no evidence that Trump colluded in Russia\u2019s election meddling. 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McCarthy: The \u201ccollusion\u201d narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won\u2019t take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth: Collusion\u2019s successor, the \u201cobstruction\u201d narrative, is a perversion. [ . . .]&#0160; To be clear, the Russia investigation is not a fraud. The Trump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/25\/the-antithesis-of-obstruction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Antithesis of Obstruction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}