{"id":33370,"date":"2016-12-20T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33370"},"modified":"2016-12-20T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:57:18","slug":"donald-trumps-grossly-contradictory-positions-on-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33370","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s Grossly Contradictory Positions On The Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many things with Donald Trump, it doesn&#8217;t take much effort to find him contradicting himself. Either that or reversing his stance. Or downright lying. Here is a Twitter Moment that perfectly illustrates this with regard to his opinions on the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-moment\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/811146997319102464\">Donald Trump On The Electoral College<\/a> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, his followers will forgive him any lie, misstatement, disinformation, insult, or contradiction. So be prepared for four years of this, barring some stroke of good fortune like his resignation or impeachment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many things with Donald Trump, it doesn&#8217;t take much effort to find him contradicting himself. Either that or reversing his stance. Or downright lying. Here is a Twitter Moment that perfectly illustrates this with regard to his opinions on the Electoral College. Donald Trump On The Electoral College Sadly, his followers will forgive him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[554,1199],"class_list":["post-33370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-tweets.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8Ge","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64227,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64227","url_meta":{"origin":33370,"position":0},"title":"WTHolyF? 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