{"id":8988,"date":"2021-01-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=150815"},"modified":"2021-01-15T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:00:00","slug":"ez-leave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/ez-leave-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EZ-Leave!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">Now that President Trump has become the first President in the history of the United States to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/house-impeachment-trump\/2021\/01\/13\/05fe731c-55c5-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">impeached twice<\/a>, more of his Republican allies will no doubt slink away. Resignations have already been piling up from the cabinet level on down since Trump incited a violent mob to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/13\/us\/politics\/capitol-riot-investigation.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">attack the U.S. Capitol building<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Betsy DeVos, Elaine Chao and Mick Mulvaney, among others, have just had it up to here with this President. Why, some switch must have flipped and made Trump a madman, right? (Mulvaney even said that today\u2019s Trump is not the one he knew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/07\/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html\"  rel=\"noopener\">eight months ago<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy complicit Republicans are finally trying to un-complicit themselves, I just wish they had found their spines when Trump tried to get Ukraine\u2019s president to dig up dirt on Joe Biden or when the administration separated thousands of children from their families or right after the \u201cboth sides\u201d comment about Charlottesville or . . .<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/15\/ez-leave\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that President Trump has become the first President in the history of the United States to be impeached twice, more of his Republican allies will no doubt\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988"}],"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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}