{"id":17159,"date":"2024-08-04T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2024-08-04T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T21:18:23","slug":"cowardly-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2024\/08\/04\/cowardly-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowardly Donald (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can&#8217;t resist mocking Trump&#8217;s attempts to weenie out of debating Harris. Why? Because his <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4809175-trump-sept-4-fox-news-debate-harris\/\">pretext<\/a> for backing out of the ABC debate  (and switching to a Fox debate) doesn&#8217;t pass the straight-faced test:<br \/><br \/>&#8220;I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest.\u201d  What&#8217;s wrong with that excuse? Trump&#8217;s lawsuit is NOT a new development. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-suing-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-defamation\/\">Trump filed suit in MARCH<\/a>  and<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2024-election-presidential-debates-biden-trump-6b1d1dbb2ed61c7637041b23662d7da8\"> agreed to the ABC debate nearly two months later, in MAY. <\/a><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>To his base, Trump&#8217;s a tough, macho male,<br \/>Who would never back down and\/or bail.<br \/>Yet he&#8217;s scared to debate<br \/>Our great VEEP on the date<br \/>And agreed-upon place. He turned tail!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t resist mocking Trump&#8217;s attempts to weenie out of debating Harris. Why? Because his pretext for backing out of the ABC debate (and switching to a Fox debate) doesn&#8217;t pass the straight-faced test: &#8220;I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest.\u201d What&#8217;s wrong with that excuse? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4052,72,124,1550,4051,21,585,4147,6,3543],"tags":[2786,192,2735,325,3738,2897,194,2764,4155,4148,395,702,2681],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17159"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17178,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions\/17178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}