{"id":10390,"date":"2021-01-19T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118398\/top-republican-mitch-mcconnell-says-donald-trump"},"modified":"2021-01-19T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:42:43","slug":"top-republican-mitch-mcconnell-says-donald-trump-provoked-us-capitol-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/top-republican-mitch-mcconnell-says-donald-trump-provoked-us-capitol-attackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Republican Mitch McConnell says Donald Trump \u2018provoked\u2019 US Capitol attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on January 19, 2021.US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said President Donald Trump \u201cprovoked\u201d the crowd that stormed the Capitol earlier this month as Congress was certifying the presidential election results, his strongest condemnation yet of the outgoing president\u2019s actions that led to the violent insurrection targeting lawmakers.McConnell\u2019s remarks\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118398\/top-republican-mitch-mcconnell-says-donald-trump\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on January 19, 2021.US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said President Donald Trump \u201cprovoked\u201d the crowd tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10391,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions\/10391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}