{"id":3158,"date":"2018-05-16T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T02:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:20:35","slug":"criminal-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3158","title":{"rendered":"The Horrors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TL;DR summary of\u00a0<em>the<\/em> Trump Tower meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/public\/search\/Group:%20washington-post%20%22Project%20ID%22:%20%2238698-senate-transcripts%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by way of the Senate Committee testimony<\/a>, seems to be &#8220;we wanted dirt on our opponent to help win the election, and were right eager to accept said help from Russia\u00a0<em>but<\/em> this meeting failed to provide what we wanted to procure&#8221;. Which, as far as defenses go &#8230; not a great one.<\/p>\n<p>While one is not meant to consider the ramification of a legal decision, Trump Jr&#8217;s testimony brings to mind prostitution sting operations. I would love to see the defendant claiming that they had\u00a0<em>not<\/em> in fact engaged in an illegal activity. Sure they\u00a0<em>wanted<\/em> to exchange money for sex. The sex was never provided; ipso facto the law was not broken. Case dismissed! Sorry to inconvenience you, upstanding citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TL;DR summary of\u00a0the Trump Tower meeting, by way of the Senate Committee testimony, seems to be &#8220;we wanted dirt on our opponent to help win the election, and were right eager to accept said help from Russia\u00a0but this meeting failed to provide what we wanted to procure&#8221;. Which, as far as defenses go &#8230; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}