{"id":22850,"date":"2026-05-17T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tapper-rips-trumps-deranged-attacks-on-cnn-new-york-times-iran-reporting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:22:18","slug":"tapper-rips-trumps-deranged-attacks-on-cnn-new-york-times-iran-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tapper-rips-trumps-deranged-attacks-on-cnn-new-york-times-iran-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapper rips Trump\u2019s \u2018deranged\u2019 attacks on BLN, New York Times Iran reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLN anchor Jake Tapper ripped President Trump&rsquo;s attacks on the media as &ldquo;deranged&rdquo; on Friday after the president lashed out against what he views as &ldquo;treasonous&rdquo; coverage of the conflict with Iran. &ldquo;Reporting these facts isn&rsquo;t treason, and it&rsquo;s deranged for any president to say such a thing and potentially dangerous for the reporters he&rsquo;s&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/media\/5881544-tapper-defends-cnn-trump-treason\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLN anchor Jake Tapper ripped President Trump&rsquo;s attacks on the media as &ldquo;deranged&rdquo; on Friday after the president lashed out against what he views as &ldquo;treasonous&rdquo; coverage of the conflict with Iran. &ldquo;Reporting these facts isn&rsquo;t treason, and it&rsquo;s deranged for any president to say such a thing and potentially dangerous for the reporters he&rsquo;s&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22850","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\/22850","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=22850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}