{"id":16000,"date":"2021-05-20T20:37:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T00:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=16000"},"modified":"2021-05-20T20:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T00:37:45","slug":"trust-washington-again-since-trump-is-gone-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/20\/trust-washington-again-since-trump-is-gone-mp3\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust Washington Again Since Trump is Gone? MP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\">Mises Institute<\/a> produced an<a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/media-wants-you-trust-washington-again-now-trump-gone\"> audio version<\/a> of my piece, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/media-wants-you-trust-washington-again-now-trump-gone\">The Media Wants You to Trust Washington Again Now That Trump Is Gone.<\/a>&#8221; <\/strong>Here&#8217;s the final graph of that piece:\u00a0 As I warned in a 2018 op-ed in <em>The Hill<\/em>, \u201cPerhaps the biggest whopper in Washington nowadays is the assumption that the government and the political class will <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/402894-in-washington-the-truth-has-refugee-status?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">automatically be trustworthy<\/a> once the Trump era ends\u2026. There will still be a thousand precedents for federal coverups and duplicity. And neither political party nor the bureaucracy has shown any itch to cease deceiving the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Michael Stack for narrating the piece. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16000-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JPB-Mises-Trumpwashing-history-706_bovard_amw_20210520.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JPB-Mises-Trumpwashing-history-706_bovard_amw_20210520.mp3\">https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JPB-Mises-Trumpwashing-history-706_bovard_amw_20210520.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16005\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone-800x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone-800x168.png 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone-1024x216.png 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone-150x32.png 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone-768x162.png 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone-1536x323.png 1536w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot_2021-05-20-The-Media-Wants-You-to-Trust-Washington-Again-Now-That-Trump-Is-Gone.png 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mises Institute produced an audio version of my piece, &#8220;The Media Wants You to Trust Washington Again Now That Trump Is Gone.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the final graph of that piece:\u00a0 As I warned in a 2018 op-ed in The Hill, \u201cPerhaps the biggest whopper in Washington nowadays is the assumption that the government and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[815,931,339,264,708],"class_list":["post-16000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foia","tag-freedom-of-information-act","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-lies","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trust Washington Again Since Trump is Gone? 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