{"id":27278,"date":"2021-09-16T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27278"},"modified":"2021-09-16T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:58:56","slug":"what-does-it-take-to-stop-a-us-president-going-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27278","title":{"rendered":"What does it take to stop a US President going rogue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So now we learn that the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to reassure the Chinese that America was not about to launch a pre-emptive attack on them. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/15\/joe-biden-mark-milley-great-confidence-trump-revelation\">an astonishing story<\/a> to emerge about the last days of the presidency of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reminds me a a novel I read four years ago called &#8220;To Kill The President&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TKTP\">here<\/a>] written by Sam Bourne (aka the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; correspondent Jonathan Freeland). The book begins with a demagogic US president threatening to launch a nuclear attack on North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that these days the dividing line between fact and fiction is frighteningly blurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now we learn that the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to reassure the Chinese that America was not about to launch a pre-emptive attack on them. This is an astonishing story to emerge about the last days of the presidency of Donald Trump. It reminds me a a novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27281,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278\/revisions\/27281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}