{"id":78048,"date":"2017-07-17T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78048"},"modified":"2017-07-17T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:39:51","slug":"clinton-ally-begala-we-should-debate-whether-we-should-blow-up-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78048","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Ally Begala: We Should &#8220;Debate Whether We Should Blow Up&#8221; Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long-time Clinton family ally Paul Begala\u00a0<\/strong>on Wednesday evening seemingly suggested President\u00a0<strong>Trump should consider bombing Russia in response to the Kremlin\u2019s meddling in the 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/16\/20170716_begala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/16\/20170716_begala.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking with CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper, the former adviser to Bill Clinton\u00a0<strong>lamented how Trump supporters don\u2019t seem particularly outraged about Russia\u2019s meddling in American affairs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWe were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0he said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cand&#8230; we should be debating how many sanctions we should place on Russia or<strong>whether we should blow up the KGB, GSU, or GRU\u00a0<\/strong>[Russia\u2019s foreign intelligence agency].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<em><strong>\u00a0\u201cIf I was Trump, I would be mad because it has tainted his victory.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hmmm&#8230; uhh&#8230; so here&#8217;s Paul Begala, top Clinton ally, saying Trump should consider bombing Russia. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/2tW1gI0Uxh\">http:\/\/t.co\/2tW1gI0Uxh<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wo9BmJPNDb\">pic.twitter.com\/wo9BmJPNDb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewKirell\/status\/885540613558607874\">July 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-16\/clinton-ally-begala-we-should-debate-whether-we-should-blow-russia\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-16\/clinton-ally-begala-we-should-debate-whether-we-should-blow-russia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}