{"id":31828,"date":"2022-04-14T16:26:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31828"},"modified":"2022-04-14T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:26:36","slug":"impeach-me-baby-one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31828","title":{"rendered":"Impeach Me Baby, One More Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyboulder.com\/trump-sinks-himself-while-whining-that-bill-barr-refused-to-take-the-fall-for-his-failed-coup-attempt\/\">Former President<\/a> Donald Trump on Wednesday inadvertently admitted that he pressured then-Attorney General Bill Barr to take the fall for his failed coup attempt, by complaining that Barr refused to get impeached for trying to help him overturn the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s stunning admission came during an interview with Fox News influencer Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to comment about investigations into his family company, Trump pivoted to attack his own Cabinet official after warning of revolt if the investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t think the people of this country are going to take it,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn\u2019t want to be impeached.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t want to get impeached. How do you not get impeached? You just sit back and relax and wait out for your term to end \u2014 and that\u2019s what he did. And it was a sad thing and a sad day for our country,\u201d Trump told Hannity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know what, had Bill Barr the courage, a lot of this could have been taken care of,\u201d Trump argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Look, get impeached. I went up a lot in the polls when I got impeached. You have to get impeached, maybe.\u2019 But he was so afraid of getting impeached he refused to do his job,\u201d Trump said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday inadvertently admitted that he pressured then-Attorney General Bill Barr to take the fall for his failed coup attempt, by complaining that Barr refused to get impeached for trying to help him overturn the 2020 election results. Trump\u2019s stunning admission came during an interview with Fox News influencer Sean Hannity. [&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-31828","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\/31828","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=31828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31829,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions\/31829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}