{"id":8053,"date":"2016-11-12T19:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2016-11-12T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:27:47","slug":"hey-trumpsters-feel-betrayed-yet-the-wall-was-just-a-great-campaign-device-dumptrump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-trump\/hey-trumpsters-feel-betrayed-yet-the-wall-was-just-a-great-campaign-device-dumptrump\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Trumpsters! Feel betrayed yet? The wall was just a &#8220;great campaign device.&#8221; #dumptrump #animalfarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a> <\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/661335\/newt-gingrich-admits-trump-probably-cant-mexico-pay-wall-but-great-campaign-device\"> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.theweek.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/tw_image_6_4\/public\/GettyImages-136429687.jpg?itok=Jit5OcRd&amp;resize=450x300\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Matthew Cavanaugh\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Two days after Donald Trump was elected president, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an ardent Trump supporter, admitted the president-elect&#8217;s promise to get Mexico to fund his proposed border wall <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottdetrow\/status\/796817460255199235\">may have just been<\/a> &#8220;a campaign device.&#8221; &#8220;He may not spend much time trying to get Mexico to pay for it,&#8221; Gingrich said of a hypothetical border structure. &#8220;But it was a great campaign device.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Cavanaugh\/Getty Images Two days after Donald Trump was elected president, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an ardent Trump supporter, admitted the president-elect&#8217;s promise to get Mexico to fund his proposed border wall may have just been &#8220;a campaign device.&#8221; &#8220;He may not spend much time trying to get Mexico to pay for it,&#8221; Gingrich &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-trump\/hey-trumpsters-feel-betrayed-yet-the-wall-was-just-a-great-campaign-device-dumptrump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey, Trumpsters! Feel betrayed yet? The wall was just a &#8220;great campaign device.&#8221; #dumptrump #animalfarm<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-trump","tag-animalfarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}