{"id":16340,"date":"2025-12-06T05:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pardons-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:20:37","slug":"trump-pardons-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-pardons-texas-democrat-henry-cuellar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pardons Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the president announced in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, blaming former President Joe Biden for weaponizing the Justice Department against his opponents. &ldquo;Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman&#8217;s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH,&rdquo; Trump wrote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/03\/congress\/henry-cuellar-trump-pardon-00674210\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the president announced in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, blaming former President Joe Biden for weaponizing the Justice Department against his opponents. &ldquo;Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman&#8217;s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH,&rdquo; Trump wrote&#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-16340","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\/16340","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=16340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}