{"id":15993,"date":"2025-11-24T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-and-johnson-suffer-rare-split-over-epstein-jack-smith-fallout\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:20:34","slug":"thune-and-johnson-suffer-rare-split-over-epstein-jack-smith-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-and-johnson-suffer-rare-split-over-epstein-jack-smith-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune and Johnson suffer rare split over Epstein, Jack Smith fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two men meet regularly and enjoy a good rapport, but the House speaker and Senate majority leader have found themselves caught up in intraparty drama&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/19\/thune-johnson-epstein-jack-smith-00660066\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two men meet regularly and enjoy a good rapport, but the House speaker and Senate majority leader have found themselves caught up in intraparty drama&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15993","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\/15993","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=15993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}