{"id":2064,"date":"2024-11-12T13:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/mcconnell-defends-past-trump-comments-we-are-all-on-the-same-team-now\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:28:59","slug":"mcconnell-defends-past-trump-comments-we-are-all-on-the-same-team-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcconnell-defends-past-trump-comments-we-are-all-on-the-same-team-now\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell defends past Trump comments: \u2018We are all on the same team now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate GOP leader called the former president &ldquo;stupid&rdquo; and a &ldquo;despicable human being&rdquo; following the 2020 election, according to The Associated Press&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/17\/mcconnell-trump-comments-00184188\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate GOP leader called the former president &ldquo;stupid&rdquo; and a &ldquo;despicable human being&rdquo; following the 2020 election, according to The Associated Press&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","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\/2064","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=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}