{"id":48287,"date":"2022-05-16T21:20:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T04:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48287"},"modified":"2022-05-16T21:20:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T04:20:28","slug":"house-gop-leaders-say-white-nationalism-accusations-are-all-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48287","title":{"rendered":"House GOP leaders say white nationalism accusations are all politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leaders are rebutting accusations from Democrats, Rep.\u00a0Liz Cheney\u00a0(R-Wyo.), Rep.\u00a0Adam Kinzinger\u00a0(R-Ill.) and others that their rhetoric has contributed to white supremacy in light of Saturday\u2019s Buffalo shooting, in which a white shooter targeted Black victims, killing 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame thing Cheney always does, just trying to play a political game when she knows something\u2019s not true,\u201d House Minority Leader\u00a0Kevin McCarthy\u00a0(R-Calif.) told reporters Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Minority Whip\u00a0Steve Scalise\u00a0(R-La.) similarly said that those accusing Republicans of racism are \u201ctrying to promote their own political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leaders are rebutting accusations&#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-48287","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\/48287","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=48287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48288,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48287\/revisions\/48288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}