{"id":23062,"date":"2026-05-21T05:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-squirm-as-trump-pursues-legacy-control-and-revenge\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T05:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:21:14","slug":"republicans-squirm-as-trump-pursues-legacy-control-and-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-squirm-as-trump-pursues-legacy-control-and-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans squirm as Trump pursues legacy, control and revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers fear a self-interested president is needlessly risking their party&rsquo;s majorities&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/20\/donald-trump-republicans-midterms-revenge-00931151\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers fear a self-interested president is needlessly risking their party&rsquo;s majorities&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23062","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\/23062","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=23062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}