{"id":9832,"date":"2022-12-06T23:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2022-12-06T23:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:14:53","slug":"suspend-the-us-constitution-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/06\/suspend-the-us-constitution-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspend the US Constitution? (Trump)"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 3, 2022, Donald Trump wrote that he wants to suspend the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

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Text is Trump’s, highlighting is mine.<\/p>\n

(Confirmation on Snopes<\/a>, original post on TruthSocial<\/a>, archive<\/a> on Archive.org(<\/p>\n

Mitch McConnell criticizized Trump’s statement<\/a> , saying “Anyone seeking the presidency who thinks that the Constitution could somehow be suspended or not followed, it seems to me would have a very hard time being sworn in as president of the United States,”<\/p>\n

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Then on Dec 5th, Trump wrote<\/a> on Truthsocial that he didn’t write what he wrote above.<\/p>\n

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December 3, 2022, Donald Trump wrote that he wants to suspend the US Constitution.   Text is Trump’s, highlighting is mine. (Confirmation on Snopes, original post on TruthSocial, archive on Archive.org( Mitch McConnell criticizized Trump’s statement , saying “Anyone seeking the presidency who thinks that the Constitution could somehow be suspended or not followed, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}