{"id":25569,"date":"2016-12-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/rigged-in-other-ways\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T18:30:00","slug":"rigged-in-other-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/rigged-in-other-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigged, in other ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few truthful statements Donald Trump made during the presidential campaign was, &ldquo;The election is rigged.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Boy, was he right &#8211; but not in the way he implied.<\/p>\n<p>The following are some of the ways in which it was rigged:<\/p>\n<p>1. The announcement by the director of the FBI, just days before the election, that additional emails had been found.<\/p>\n<p>2. The voter suppression laws on the books in a number of states whose main purpose was to decrease the number of Democratic votes.<\/p>\n<p>3. Cyberhacking by Trump&rsquo;s friend in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>One of Trump&rsquo;s false statements was that he would &ldquo;drain the swamp.&rdquo; So what is he doing? Instead of draining the swamp, he&rsquo;s adding alligators to it &#8211; all this by a man who garnered 2.7 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Wesley Aman<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few truthful statements Donald Trump made during the presidential campaign was, &ldquo;The election is rigged.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25569"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}