{"id":14125,"date":"2026-01-16T06:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:15:49","slug":"do-not-bury-the-lede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14125","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Bury The Lede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2026\/01\/burying-the-lede-at-the-core-of-the-earth\">Lawyers, Guns and Money<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reuters did a 30-minute interview with Donald Trump. Here\u2019s the LAST paragraph of their write-up of it:<\/p>\n<p>The president expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate in this year\u2019s midterm elections, citing historical trends that have seen the party in power lose seats in the second year of a presidency. \u201cIt\u2019s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don\u2019t win the midterms,\u201d Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that \u201cwhen you think of it, we shouldn\u2019t even have an election.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s laying the groundwork for cancelling the 2026 election, or at minimum cancelling it in democrat majority states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from Lawyers, Guns and Money&#8230; Reuters did a 30-minute interview with Donald Trump. Here\u2019s the LAST paragraph of their write-up of it: The president expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate in this year\u2019s midterm elections, citing historical trends that have seen the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[279],"class_list":["post-14125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-staring-into-the-abyss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14126,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions\/14126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}