{"id":11178,"date":"2018-05-08T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2018-05-08T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:34:23","slug":"the-trump-land-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-trump-land-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Land Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span>fter the 2016 election, the so-called deep state was confident that it had the power easily to either stop, remove, or delegitimize the outlier Donald Trump and his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Give it credit, the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops: implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the Trump executive branch; filing lawsuits and judge shopping; organizing the Resistance; pursuing impeachment writs; warping the FISA courts; weaponizing the DOJ and FBI; attempting to disrupt the Electoral College; angling for enactment of the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause; and unleashing Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley, and many in Wall Street to suffocate the Trump presidency in its infancy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/president-trump-deep-state-critics-risk-blowback\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review After the 2016 election, the so-called deep state was confident that it had the power easily to either stop, remove, or delegitimize the outlier Donald Trump and his presidency. Give it credit, the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops: implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Ui","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11316,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-american-art-of-renewal\/","url_meta":{"origin":11178,"position":0},"title":"The American Art of Renewal","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review \u2018Make America Great Again\u201d is the oft-caricatured slogan of the Donald Trump presidency. 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