{"id":23636,"date":"2017-01-14T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23636"},"modified":"2017-01-14T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T15:08:11","slug":"gaius-publius-whos-blackmailing-the-president-why-arent-democrats-upset-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/01\/14\/gaius-publius-whos-blackmailing-the-president-why-arent-democrats-upset-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaius Publius: Who\u2019s Blackmailing the President &#038; Why Aren\u2019t Democrats Upset About It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/01\/gaius-publius-whos-blackmailing-president-arent-democrats-upset.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">Gaius Publius: Who\u2019s Blackmailing the President &#038; Why Aren\u2019t Democrats Upset About It?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs I said above, there only three elements to \u201cget\u201d to get this story. First, there\u2019s the blackmail element. According to the 35-page dossier, Russia (supposedly) prepared blackmail material on Trump but isn\u2019t using it.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s clear that American intelligence services certainly are using it, or using the threat of using it, and doing so very publicly\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article and the links that are in it get to the seriousness of what is going on here. It may all unfold before the inauguration on Friday.  This is going to be an interesting week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Gaius Publius: Who\u2019s Blackmailing the President &#038; Why Aren\u2019t Democrats Upset About It? As I said above, there only three elements to \u201cget\u201d to get this story. First, there\u2019s the blackmail element. According to the 35-page dossier, Russia (supposedly) prepared blackmail material on Trump but isn\u2019t using it. But it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23637,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636\/revisions\/23637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}