{"id":54122,"date":"2022-11-02T19:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54122"},"modified":"2022-11-02T19:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:06:59","slug":"biden-goes-after-trump-lies-in-democracy-speech-after-pelosi-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54122","title":{"rendered":"Biden goes after Trump \u2018lies\u2019 in democracy speech after Pelosi attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Biden\u00a0on Wednesday went after former President\u00a0Trump\u00a0and other Republicans who continue to tout 2020 election lies, warning democracy is on the ballot just six days before the midterms and following the violent attack on Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u2019s\u00a0(D-Calif.) husband.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refused to accept the results of the 2020 election,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The president, speaking at a Democratic National Committee event at Union Station near the Capitol, warned the public that the country faced a crossroads in next week\u2019s election that could upend democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Biden\u00a0on Wednesday went after former President\u00a0Trump\u00a0and&#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-54122","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\/54122","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=54122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54123,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54122\/revisions\/54123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}