{"id":18260,"date":"2026-01-27T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cruz-advises-trump-officials-to-tone-down-rhetoric-on-minnesota-shootings\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:22:16","slug":"cruz-advises-trump-officials-to-tone-down-rhetoric-on-minnesota-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cruz-advises-trump-officials-to-tone-down-rhetoric-on-minnesota-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz advises Trump officials to tone down rhetoric on Minnesota shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) urged the Trump administration to embrace a more measured tone in response to the officer-involved shootings in Minnesota, saying officials undermine their credibility by escalating their rhetoric before an investigation has taken place. In the latest episode of his &ldquo;Verdict&rdquo; podcast, Cruz praised the Trump administration&rsquo;s work to lower crime and&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5707606-cruz-urges-trump-measured-tone\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) urged the Trump administration to embrace a more measured tone in response to the officer-involved shootings in Minnesota, saying officials undermine their credibility by escalating their rhetoric before an investigation has taken place. In the latest episode of his &ldquo;Verdict&rdquo; podcast, Cruz praised the Trump administration&rsquo;s work to lower crime and&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18260","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\/18260","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=18260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}