{"id":19142,"date":"2017-05-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e0cf79c4864b50f59e6e59666a4e4a17"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:00:00","slug":"donald-trump-and-his-league-of-extraordinary-despots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2017\/05\/24\/donald-trump-and-his-league-of-extraordinary-despots\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and his League of Extraordinary Despots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>This week, Donald Trump stood in a sea of tyrants and joined in a bizarre group petting of a glowing white orb. Professor As\u2019ad AbuKhalil dissects Trump\u2019s summit in Saudi Arabia and the role Trump\u2019s friends in the Middle East play in fueling such horrors as the attack on Manchester. The Intercept\u2019s new DC bureau chief, Ryan Grim, and national security reporter Matthew Cole discuss Gen. Michael Flynn and whether anyone in the Trump administration realizes how insane their boss is. And Steve Earle performs live.<\/p>\n       &#10;&nbsp;<br \/><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; '  rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https:\/\/acast.com\/privacy'>acast.com\/privacy<\/a> for privacy and opt-out information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/donaldtrumpandhisleagueofextraordinarydespots\">Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        This week, Donald Trump stood in a sea of tyrants and joined in a bizarre group petting of a glowing white orb. Professor As\u2019ad AbuKhalil dissects Trump\u2019s summit in Saudi Arabia and the role Trump\u2019s friends in the Middle East play in fueling s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"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\/19142"}],"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\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798430,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions\/798430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}