Late breaking news in today’s NY Times (lightly edited for style):<\/i><\/p>\n
White House Doesn’t Abstain from Denying Trump Didn’t Avoid Saying Russia Isn\u2019t Refraining from Not Targeting U.S.<\/b><\/p>\n
Asked whether Russia hadn’t stopped \u201cstill targeting\u201d the United States, President Trump did not deny declining to eschew saying \u201cNo,\u201d and so evaded desisting from appearing to not fail to contradict assertions from none other than his own intelligence chief.<\/p>\n
Hours after the comments, the latest in a dizzying series of conflicting statements, the White House said Mr. Trump was answering a different question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Late breaking news in today’s NY Times (lightly edited for style): White House Doesn’t Abstain from Denying Trump Didn’t Avoid Saying Russia Isn\u2019t Refraining from Not Targeting U.S. Asked whether Russia hadn’t stopped \u201cstill targeting\u201d the United States, President Trump did not deny declining to eschew saying \u201cNo,\u201d and so evaded desisting from appearing to … Continue reading “Well, that clears that up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20141,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions\/20141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}