{"id":5137,"date":"2021-05-07T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:24:52","slug":"how-trump-is-hunting-down-the-gops-leading-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"How Trump is hunting down the GOP\u2019s leading families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Whether it\u2019s the Cheneys, the Bushes or the lesser bloodlines \u2014 such as the Romneys or the Murkowskis \u2014 Trump has been relentless in his efforts to force them to bend the knee. Even Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain \u2014 who herself has never run for office \u2014 has been knocked down, censured by Trump allies<\/a> who run the state Republican Party in Arizona.”
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“The modern GOP, George W. Bush told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show earlier this month<\/a>, is \u201cisolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not exactly my vision,\u201d Bush said. \u201cBut, you know, I\u2019m just an old guy they put out to pasture.\u201d”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/07\/trump-cheney-gop-families-485528<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Whether it\u2019s the Cheneys, the Bushes or the lesser bloodlines \u2014 such as the Romneys or the Murkowskis \u2014 Trump has been relentless in his efforts to force them to bend the knee. Even Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain \u2014 who herself has never run for office \u2014 has been knocked down, censured by Trump allies who run the state Republican Party in Arizona.”<\/p>\n

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“The modern GOP, George W. Bush told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show earlier this month, is \u201cisolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not exactly my vision,\u201d Bush said. \u201cBut, you know, I\u2019m just an old guy they put out to pasture.\u201d” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,968],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}