{"id":45493,"date":"2022-03-01T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45493"},"modified":"2022-03-01T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:44:57","slug":"gop-senators-push-back-hard-on-trumps-praise-of-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45493","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators push back hard on Trump&#8217;s praise of Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has revealed tensions within the Republican Party over how aggressively to push back on the aggression and how to respond to former\u00a0President Trump\u2019s glowing praise of Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The national security crisis has shown Trump to be seriously out of step with GOP leaders on characterizing Putin\u2019s motives and moves, even though Trump looks increasingly likely to run again for president in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) on Tuesday contradicted Trump\u2019s recent praise of Putin as \u201csmart\u201d and \u201csavvy\u201d by declaring that he views the Russian president as a \u201cruthless thug.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45494,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45493\/revisions\/45494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}