{"id":79752,"date":"2025-01-22T09:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=79752"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:46:29","slug":"trump-needs-to-be-merciful-on-frightened-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-needs-to-be-merciful-on-frightened-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump needs to be merciful on frightened Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for another Trump-related post, but this is a perfect example of speaking truth to power:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FJruKu-fMAI?si=nZ_FfC4VtCz022zJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I admire the minister's courage.<\/p>\n<p>Her message was appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's reaction was predictable, but it tells us what we knew: he is here to stalk the vulnerable, bully the oppressed and spread misery among the many.<\/p>\n<p>This man is no Christian, and nor are those who support him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for another Trump-related post, but this is a perfect example of speaking truth to power: I admire the minister&#8217;s courage. Her message was appropriate.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-needs-to-be-merciful-on-frightened-americans\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,14,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79753,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79752\/revisions\/79753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}