{"id":622,"date":"2018-06-14T04:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=622"},"modified":"2018-06-14T04:32:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:32:27","slug":"the-point-lets-not-crown-corker-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/the-point-lets-not-crown-corker-just-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point: Let&#8217;s not crown Corker just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican, is the new hero of the anti-Trump movement after a series of comments over the last 48 hours blasting his party for its unwillingness to stand up to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We&#8217;re in a strange place,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MqFXzlHAiu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corker told reporters Wednesday<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s becoming a cultish thing, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s not a good place for any party to have a cult-like situation as it relates to a President that happens to be purportedly of the same party.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Those comments came less than 24 hours after Corker drew headlines for his call to action from the Senate floor.\u00a0&#8220;We might poke the bear!&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/12\/politics\/bob-corker-tariff\/index.html\">said Corker\u00a0sarcastically<\/a>. &#8220;My gosh, if the President gets upset with us we might not be in the majority.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican, is the new hero of the anti-Trump movement after a series of comments over the last 48 hours blasting his party for its unwillingness to stand up to President Donald Trump. &#8220;We&#8217;re in a strange place,&#8221;\u00a0Corker told reporters Wednesday. &#8220;It&#8217;s becoming a cultish thing, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,13,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletters","category-opinion","category-politics","category-snp","category-ukip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}