{"id":16248,"date":"2025-12-03T23:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-backs-trumps-pardon-of-cuellar-exactly-the-right-outcome\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:44","slug":"jeffries-backs-trumps-pardon-of-cuellar-exactly-the-right-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-backs-trumps-pardon-of-cuellar-exactly-the-right-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries backs Trump\u2019s pardon of Cuellar: \u2018Exactly the right outcome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday backed President Trump&rsquo;s decision to provide a preemptive pardon for Rep. Henry Cuellar, suggesting the corruption charges against the longtime Texas Democrat were so &ldquo;thin&rdquo; that he wouldn&rsquo;t have been convicted anyway.&nbsp; &ldquo;I don&#8217;t know why the president decided to do this&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5632133-jeffries-trump-pardon-cuellar\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday backed President Trump&rsquo;s decision to provide a preemptive pardon for Rep. Henry Cuellar, suggesting the corruption charges against the longtime Texas Democrat were so &ldquo;thin&rdquo; that he wouldn&rsquo;t have been convicted anyway.&nbsp; &ldquo;I don&#8217;t know why the president decided to do this&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16248","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\/16248","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=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}