{"id":5727,"date":"2017-10-17T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T12:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2017-10-17T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T12:14:48","slug":"trump-is-a-puppet-of-insert-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5727\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is a Puppet of [Insert Country]!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/amphtml\/opinions\/global-opinions\/the-man-at-the-crux-the-of-us-turkey-dispute-is-about-to-go-on-trial\/2017\/10\/12\/92c4c7a2-af96-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erdogan&#8217;s government began cultivating Donald Trump&#8217;s team before the election. Michael Flynn, then a campaign aide, was\u00a0hired\u00a0as a pro-Turkey lobbyist, and his firm continued to receive Turkish money during the transition. After Flynn\u00a0resigned\u00a0as national security adviser in February, the Turks\u00a0began working with\u00a0Rudy Giuliani, a close Trump adviser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, having utterly failed to turn up a shred of evidence of collusion with Russia, those who don&#8217;t like Trump move the narrative effortlessly onto collusion with Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone sane still listening to this crap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: Erdogan&#8217;s government began cultivating Donald Trump&#8217;s team before the election. Michael Flynn, then a campaign aide, was\u00a0hired\u00a0as a pro-Turkey lobbyist, and his firm continued to receive Turkish money during the transition. After Flynn\u00a0resigned\u00a0as national security adviser &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5727\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,73,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}