{"id":18763,"date":"2026-02-08T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-says-gop-finally-showed-some-backbone-in-criticizing-trump-for-racist-video-of-obamas\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:20:29","slug":"jeffries-says-gop-finally-showed-some-backbone-in-criticizing-trump-for-racist-video-of-obamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-says-gop-finally-showed-some-backbone-in-criticizing-trump-for-racist-video-of-obamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries says GOP &#8216;finally showed some backbone&#8217; in criticizing Trump for racist video of Obamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday his GOP colleagues in Congress &ldquo;finally showed some backbone&rdquo; in pushing back against a video President Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday evening portraying former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.  &ldquo;It was a disgusting video&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5728559-jeffries-gop-backlash-trump-racist-video\/\" 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.) said Sunday his GOP colleagues in Congress &ldquo;finally showed some backbone&rdquo; in pushing back against a video President Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday evening portraying former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. &ldquo;It was a disgusting video&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18763","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\/18763","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=18763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}