{"id":161685,"date":"2026-04-20T01:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161685"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:36:00","slug":"ossoff-calls-out-the-mar-a-lago-mafia-as-2028-presidential-buzz-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161685","title":{"rendered":"Ossoff Calls Out the \u2018Mar-a-Lago Mafia\u2019 as 2028 Presidential Buzz Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Guardian | April 18, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a campaign rally in Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday, the Democratic senator Jon Ossoff mocked Donald Trump\u2019s rosy predictions on Iran and tore into what he called the unprecedented corruption of the president\u2019s family, amid mounting speculation that the Democrat could launch a bid for his party\u2019s nomination for the presidency in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Did you hear what this man said two weeks ago?\u2019 the senator asked supporters. \u2018Quote: \u201cIt\u2019s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare.\u201d He said: \u201cWe can only afford to fund war.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Because draft-dodging Donald loves sending other people\u2019s children to war,\u2019 Ossoff said. The senator noted that the $200bn the White House requested to pay for the war on Iran would be enough to \u2018fund a decade, ten full years of nationwide, universal pre-kindergarten. Instead? A war no one voted for and no one can explain.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/18\/jon-ossoff-fiery-speech-presidential-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian | April 18, 2026 \u201cAt a campaign rally in Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday, the Democratic senator Jon Ossoff mocked Donald Trump\u2019s rosy predictions on Iran and tore into what he called the unprecedented corruption of the president\u2019s family, amid mounting speculation that the Democrat could launch a bid for his party\u2019s nomination for&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161685","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=161685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161692,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161685\/revisions\/161692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}