{"id":8450,"date":"2019-10-21T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/22\/diversionary-war\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:20","slug":"diversionary-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/diversionary-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna addresses president&#8217;s strategy for handling impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_39141\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39141\" class=\"wp-image-39141 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/danielle-lupton-e1560180382231.jpg\" alt=\"diversionary war\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 267px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 267\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Furman alumna Danielle Lupton &#8217;08 is assistant professor of political science at Colgate University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Danielle Lupton, a 2008 Furman University political science graduate and assistant professor of political science at Colgate University, has written an article about why President Donald Trump is not likely to wage a diversionary war even while facing an impeachment inquiry. She and Colgate colleague Valerie Morkevicius outline three reasons Trump might choose an alternative strategy. Read more in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/17\/no-trump-probably-wont-start-war-distract-his-difficulties-heres-what-hell-do-instead\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Lupton, a 2008 Furman University political science graduate and assistant professor of political science at Colgate University, has written an article about why President Donald Trump is not likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}