{"id":19598,"date":"2026-03-04T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steve-bannongets-an-unusual-assist-from-trumps-justice-department\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:23:11","slug":"steve-bannongets-an-unusual-assist-from-trumps-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steve-bannongets-an-unusual-assist-from-trumps-justice-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bannongets an unusual assist from Trump\u2019s Justice Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adhering to the rule of law has not been&nbsp;a hallmark&nbsp;of the Justice Department under Donald Trump.&nbsp;Moving to dismiss Bannon&rsquo;s indictment is just another sign of&nbsp;its willingness to play fast and loose with facts and law.&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/5764913-trump-justice-department-bannon\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adhering to the rule of law has not been&nbsp;a hallmark&nbsp;of the Justice Department under Donald Trump.&nbsp;Moving to dismiss Bannon&rsquo;s indictment is just another sign of&nbsp;its willingness to play fast and loose with facts and law.&nbsp;&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19598","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\/19598","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=19598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}