{"id":126948,"date":"2024-03-07T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126948"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:47:04","slug":"man-of-principle-mitch-mcconnell-endorses-trump-who-he-said-was-responsible-for-riot-that-killed-5-people-in-a-disgraceful-dereliction-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126948","title":{"rendered":"Man of Principle Mitch McConnell Endorses Trump Who He Said Was &#8220;Responsible&#8221; for Riot That Killed 5 People In a &#8220;Disgraceful Dereliction of Duty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/06\/politics\/mitch-mcconnell-endorses-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday he will support Donald Trump for the presidency, a move that comes more than<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/28\/politics\/republican-senate-leadership-future\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0three years after they have last spoken<\/a>\u00a0and after the Kentucky Republican pointedly blamed Trump for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States,\u201d McConnell said in a statement. \u201cIt should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: &#8220;Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday he will support Donald Trump for the presidency, a move that comes more than\u00a0three years after they have last spoken\u00a0and after the Kentucky Republican pointedly blamed Trump for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. \u201cIt is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126949,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126948\/revisions\/126949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}