{"id":15899,"date":"2025-11-21T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-defends-trumps-sedition-attacks-on-democrats-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:20:28","slug":"mike-johnson-defends-trumps-sedition-attacks-on-democrats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-defends-trumps-sedition-attacks-on-democrats-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson defends Trump&#8217;s &#8216;sedition&#8217; attacks on Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump&#8217;s declaration Thursday that some congressional Democrats engaged in &#8220;sedition&#8221; after the president suggested those Democrats should be executed Thursday. Johnson said it was the Democrats who were acting &ldquo;wildly inappropriate&rdquo; by suggesting that military members should disobey unlawful orders from Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/20\/congress\/mike-johnson-trump-sedition-00662754\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump&#8217;s declaration Thursday that some congressional Democrats engaged in &#8220;sedition&#8221; after the president suggested those Democrats should be executed Thursday. Johnson said it was the Democrats who were acting &ldquo;wildly inappropriate&rdquo; by suggesting that military members should disobey unlawful orders from Trump&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899","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=15899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}