{"id":27373,"date":"2018-01-16T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27373"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:37:20","slug":"up-from-the-memory-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27373","title":{"rendered":"Up From the Memory Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time some new report about Trump being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/1\/16\/16883290\/donald-trump-congress-fitness-policy-immigration\">totally out of touch with policy matters<\/a> and how his staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2018\/01\/15\/interesting-read-between-the-lines-john-kelly-is-the-man-fred-trump-always-wanted-donald-trump-to-be\/\">tries to keep him away from the levers of power<\/a>, I think back to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/20\/politics\/john-kasich-donald-trump-vice-president\/index.html\">Donald Trump and John Kasich's<\/a> teams are at war over whether the Republican presidential nominee ever seriously wanted the Ohio governor to join the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources close to Kasich said Trump's son, Donald Jr., tried to entice Kasich with a position as the most powerful vice president in history, but he turned it down. Kasich would have been in charge of all domestic and foreign policy in a Trump White House, Kasich sources said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure he denied it because it makes him look seem weak and out of his depth. But he denies everything, and he <i>is<\/i> weak and out of his depth.<\/p>\n<p>Trump never wanted to be President. Maybe he wanted to win the contest, but he was never up for the <i>job<\/i>. And we've known this the whole time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time some new report about Trump being totally out of touch with policy matters and how his staff tries to keep him away from the levers of power, I think back to this: Donald Trump and John Kasich's teams are at war over whether the Republican presidential nominee ever seriously wanted the Ohio governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27377,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions\/27377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}