{"id":6834,"date":"2022-08-12T20:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T03:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2022-08-15T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:51:12","slug":"merrick-garland-masterfully-played-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6834","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Merrick Garland masterfully plays Donald Trump (and other Republican bloviators)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since Merrick Garland doesn&#8217;t look fierce and imposing and boast and crow, Trump may have assumed His appointed Attorney General would meekly serve His purposes, being obedient and easy to control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lawrence: \u2018Merrick Garland Has Outsmarted Donald Trump At Every Turn\u2019\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LM5H9vlH31s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Merrick Garland doesn&#8217;t look fierce and imposing and boast and crow, Trump may have assumed His appointed Attorney General would meekly serve His purposes, being obedient and easy to control. Trump was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}