{"id":14866,"date":"2025-10-26T11:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ben-shapiro-says-trumps-230m-doj-payout-push-is-rife-with-conflicts-of-interest\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:20:38","slug":"ben-shapiro-says-trumps-230m-doj-payout-push-is-rife-with-conflicts-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ben-shapiro-says-trumps-230m-doj-payout-push-is-rife-with-conflicts-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro says Trump\u2019s $230M DOJ payout push is \u2018rife with conflicts of interest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on Saturday slammed President Trump&rsquo;s effort to receive a $230 million payment from the Department of Justice (DOJ) as compensation for the various federal probes into his conduct. &ldquo;I think that it&rsquo;s rife with conflicts of interest,&rdquo; Shapiro told NewsNation&rsquo;s Batya Ungar-Sargon.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5573489-shapiro-slams-trump-doj-payment-effort\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on Saturday slammed President Trump&rsquo;s effort to receive a $230 million payment from the Department of Justice (DOJ) as compensation for the various federal probes into his conduct. &ldquo;I think that it&rsquo;s rife with conflicts of interest,&rdquo; Shapiro told NewsNation&rsquo;s Batya Ungar-Sargon.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}