{"id":19272,"date":"2026-02-23T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/c-span-puts-speculation-on-identity-of-caller-to-rest-it-was-not-the-president\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:22:13","slug":"c-span-puts-speculation-on-identity-of-caller-to-rest-it-was-not-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/c-span-puts-speculation-on-identity-of-caller-to-rest-it-was-not-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"C-SPAN puts speculation on identity of caller to rest: &#8216;It was not the president&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C-SPAN said Sunday that the man who called in to the network on Friday was not, in fact, President Trump.&nbsp; &ldquo;Because so many of you are talking about Friday&rsquo;s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as &lsquo;John Barron,&rsquo; we want to put this to rest: it was not the president,&rdquo; the network wrote on the social&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5750318-cspan-caller-not-trump\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-SPAN said Sunday that the man who called in to the network on Friday was not, in fact, President Trump.&nbsp; &ldquo;Because so many of you are talking about Friday&rsquo;s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as &lsquo;John Barron,&rsquo; we want to put this to rest: it was not the president,&rdquo; the network wrote on the social&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19272","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\/19272","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=19272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}