{"id":29673,"date":"2019-12-03T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29673"},"modified":"2019-12-03T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T18:51:15","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29673","title":{"rendered":"The Null Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason Trump and his defenders aren't mounting any kind of serious defense to the impeachment accustaions is even simpler than \"There isn't one\". It's the simplest reason of all:<\/p>\n<p><strong>He doesn't need one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate outcome is preordained: they're going to vote to acquit. Trump knows he doesn't need to defend himself, <em>at all<\/em>. Instead, they're using the media attention to stage another episode of Republican Grievance Theater for the rubes. <\/p>\n<p>Hand-wringing over the incompetence of the defenses misses the point. The defenses don't need to be <em>legally <\/em>competent; they only need to keep the GOP base happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason Trump and his defenders aren't mounting any kind of serious defense to the impeachment accustaions is even simpler than \"There isn't one\". It's the simplest reason of all: He doesn't need one. The Senate outcome is preordained: they're going to vote to acquit. Trump knows he doesn't need to defend himself, at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29673","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=29673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29677,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29673\/revisions\/29677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}