{"id":5240,"date":"2022-09-02T17:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:55:59","slug":"the-president-who-never-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/09\/02\/the-president-who-never-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"The President Who Never Lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cIf you\u2019re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\u201d asked the President who never lied to whip his followers into a frenzy.  His true believers cheered. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mob takes the Fifth,\u201d said the President who never lied.  His true believers hooped and hollered.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fifth.  Horrible!  Horrible!\u201d insisted the President who never lied.  His true believers waved flags of his graven image. <\/p>\n<p>Then when he was deposed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did you overvalue your assets to secure loans and undervalue your assets to evade taxes?\u201d he was asked for hours by New York state attorneys. <\/p>\n<p>He took the Fifth 440 times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Todd Matson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\u201d asked the President who never lied to whip his followers into a frenzy. His true believers cheered. \u201cThe mob takes the Fifth,\u201d said the President who never lied. His true believers hooped and hollered. \u201cThe Fifth. Horrible! Horrible!\u201d insisted the President who never lied. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11274,11275,11270,1273,11271,6472,41,7574,5595,11273,5447,1383,2731,7776,7505,11276,10061,11272],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-assets","tag-attorneys","tag-fifth-amendment","tag-flags","tag-followers","tag-frenzy","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hours","tag-image","tag-loans","tag-mob","tag-new-york","tag-president","tag-state","tag-taxes","tag-the-fifth","tag-todd-matson","tag-true-believers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}