{"id":374796,"date":"2018-08-25T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-waiting-for-my-man\/"},"modified":"2018-08-25T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T06:40:17","slug":"roaming-charges-waiting-for-my-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-waiting-for-my-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: Waiting for My Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/natnq.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>+ Trump is acting like a mob boss. So sayeth Noah Rothman on the pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/politics-ideas\/donald-trump-sounds-like-a-mob-boss\/\">Commentary<\/a>. But surely hat&#8217;s giving Trump far too much credit. The Trump Syndicate is more like what <em>Godfather III<\/em> would have been like if Fredo was the only Corleone brother to survive and ended up running the show&#8230; in other words, a Mel Brooks movie.<\/p>\n<p>+ What kind of mob boss can&#8217;t even keep his consiglieres in line? Michael Cohen, who once vowed to take a bullet for Trump, folded &#8220;like rat&#8221; before prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, pleading guilty to a slate of charges without even copping an immunity deal. Cohen was so eager to sing that he publicly implicated Trump in a conspiracy to buy the silence to two former paramours, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Cohen offered this juicy bit of inculpatory evidence gratis. Thanks for nothing Don Donald.<\/p>\n<p>+ Meanwhile, as the legal walls close in, Trump could only vent his anger in yet another tirade about his other useless lawyer, J. Beauregard Sessions.\u00a0\u201cJeff Sessions recused himself, which he shouldn\u2019t have done, or he should have told me,\u201d Trump puffed. \u201cHe took my job, and then he said, \u2018I\u2019m going to recuse myself.\u2019 I said, \u2018What kind of man is this?\u2019 \u201d Mr. President, that&#8217;s the same question we&#8217;ve all been asking ourselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>+ It&#8217;s hard to tell who is the weaker of the two men, Trump, who is too cowardly to fire Sessions or Sessions who is too little self-respect to resign. Instead, Sessions spat out this turgid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/24\/roaming-charges-waiting-for-my-man\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>+ Trump is acting like a mob boss. So sayeth Noah Rothman on the pages of Commentary. But surely hat&#8217;s giving Trump far too much credit. The Trump Syndicate is more like what Godfather III would have been like if Fredo was the only Corleone brother to survive and ended up running the show&#8230; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}