{"id":52212,"date":"2022-09-12T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52212"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:24:45","slug":"gop-senators-led-by-graham-slam-trump-jan-6-pardon-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52212","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators led by Graham slam Trump Jan. 6 pardon promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s promise to grant pardons to the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is running into strong opposition from Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump\u2019s closest allies, told The Hill that granting pardons to Jan. 6 protesters is \u201ca bad idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPardons are given to people who admit misconduct, rehabilitate themselves. They\u2019re not supposed to be used for other purposes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other Republican senators are joining Graham in criticizing Trump\u2019s promise to pardon the Jan. 6 protesters as inappropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s promise to grant&#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-52212","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\/52212","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=52212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52213,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212\/revisions\/52213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}