{"id":1859,"date":"2011-12-04T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2011-12-04T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T17:51:14","slug":"trump-to-moderate-gop-debate-paul-pans-donald-trump-as-false-gop-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/trump-to-moderate-gop-debate-paul-pans-donald-trump-as-false-gop-deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump to Moderate GOP Debate Paul Pans Trump as False GOP Deity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?rel=3&amp;windows=1&amp;show_title=0&amp;pf_id=1907&amp;va_id=3075861&amp;aspect_ratio=3x2&amp;auto_start=0&amp;volume=8\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/politicolive\/1211\/Ron_Paul_pans_Donald_Trump_as_false_GOP_diety.html\">Politico: Ron Paul pans Donald Trump as false GOP deity<\/a><br \/>\nFresh off snubbing Donald Trump by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1211\/69687.html\" target=\"_blank\">refusing to participate<\/a> in a debate he&#8217;s moderating, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/2012-election\/ron-paul\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul<\/a> blasts his fellow GOP presidential candidates for paying the billionaire businessman so much credence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite understand the marching to his office,&#8221; Paul said on CNN&#8217;s <em>State of the Union<\/em> this morning, referring to the parade of presidential candidates who&#8217;ve met with Trump in recent months. &#8220;I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize he had the ability to lay on hands and anoint people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Paul rejected the debate invitation by deeming Trump &#8220;clown-like,&#8221; while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1211\/69693.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trump released a statement<\/a> saying Paul is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153willing to lie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153either very jealous of Mr. Trump, stupid, or a combination of both.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The debate is scheduled for Dec. 27 in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Host Candy Crowley asked Paul why his relationship with Trump turned so rocky, so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He probably doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like my position on the federal reserve,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Paul said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It may be, deep down, philosophic \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and his personality that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like to be challenged.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Trump himself had an extended dalliance with a Republican presidential run, ultimately deciding against entering the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: Ron Paul pans Donald Trump as false GOP deity Fresh off snubbing Donald Trump by refusing to participate in a debate he&#8217;s moderating, Ron Paul blasts his fellow GOP presidential candidates for paying the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[12,232,15,549],"tags":[3230,350,3231,843,3233,90,3232,3229,1607,95],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}