{"id":1385753,"date":"2023-12-11T17:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=708a7a944400bb25845ad15fba6cf51e"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:59:58","slug":"republicans-are-defending-trumps-dictator-comments-calling-it-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/11\/republicans-are-defending-trumps-dictator-comments-calling-it-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Are Defending Trump\u2019s \u201cDictator\u201d Comments, Calling It Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on Capitol Hill have vastly downplayed the importance of former President Donald Trump twice stating in the past week that he wants dictatorial powers on the first day of his next term in office, should he win the 2024 presidential election. Trump&rsquo;s comments, which presume he&rsquo;s going to win what will be, by all accounts, a tightly contested race, were initially made last week during a...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/republicans-are-defending-trumps-dictator-comments-calling-it-entertainment\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/republicans-are-defending-trumps-dictator-comments-calling-it-entertainment\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics warn that Trump&#8217;s desire to be a dictator, however briefly, reflects an &#8220;inherent hostility&#8221; toward democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9960,40274,476,49,4,72012],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385753"}],"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\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385755,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385753\/revisions\/1385755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}