{"id":59781,"date":"2016-08-04T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59781"},"modified":"2016-07-31T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:06:23","slug":"youve-been-punked-in-english-and-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59781","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Been Punked &#8211; In English And Russian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is hilarious.\u00a0 Trump asking Russia \u201cIf you hacked Hillary\u2019s private email server, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/2016-conventions\/trump-calls-russia-help-find-missing-clinton-emails-n617946\"><span class=\"s2\">will you give the FBI copies of the stuff she deleted<\/span><\/a>?\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Hey, they need it to complete their investigation, right?\u00a0 What, are Democrats against law and order?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">This is genius.\u00a0 It forces everyone to recall that Hillary ran a private server for official government business, that she deleted emails instead of giving them to our own government, and that her carelessness probably enabled Russia to see her emails including anything that was classified.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This forces Hillary\u2019s campaign onto the defensive and robs her of momentum.\u00a0 \u00a0And it threatens Hillary with the possibility that stuff she believed safely deleted might come to light so she must prepare the battle-space for that possibility, which further distracts her from campaigning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Glenn Reynolds comments: \u201cTroll Level: Supreme Galactic Overlord.\u201d\u00a0 All of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Never thought I&#8217;d find something to admire about Trump &#8211; but here we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is hilarious.\u00a0 Trump asking Russia \u201cIf you hacked Hillary\u2019s private email server, will you give the FBI copies of the stuff she deleted?\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Hey, they need it to complete their investigation, right?\u00a0 What, are Democrats against law and order? \u00a0This is genius.\u00a0 It forces everyone to recall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59788,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59781\/revisions\/59788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}