{"id":4472,"date":"2025-01-05T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-err-reluctantly-taps-former-critic-as-middle-east-envoy-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:22:01","slug":"trump-err-reluctantly-taps-former-critic-as-middle-east-envoy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-err-reluctantly-taps-former-critic-as-middle-east-envoy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump (err, reluctantly?) taps former critic as Middle East envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has invited former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus to join his new administration &mdash; but he doesn&#8217;t seem thrilled about it. The president-elect said Friday that he would appoint Ortagus, who was the public face of the State Department for three years in his first administration&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/03\/congress\/trumps-less-than-glowing-endorsement-00196458\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has invited former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus to join his new administration &mdash; but he doesn&#8217;t seem thrilled about it. The president-elect said Friday that he would appoint Ortagus, who was the public face of the State Department for three years in his first administration&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","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=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}