{"id":34564,"date":"2025-02-27T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/republicans-terrified-of-crossing-trump-due-to-physical-threats-democrat-says\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:08:37","slug":"republicans-terrified-of-crossing-trump-due-to-physical-threats-democrat-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/republicans-terrified-of-crossing-trump-due-to-physical-threats-democrat-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Swalwell says threats to them and their families are stopping GOP officials from criticizing president<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/27\/donald-trump-cuts-elon-musk-keir-starmer-ukraine-latest-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republicans on Capitol Hill are shying away from criticizing Donald Trump\u2019s policies over fears for their physical safety and that of their families, a Democratic member of Congress has said.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Swalwell, a Democratic representative from California, said his Republican colleagues were \u201cterrified\u201d of crossing Trump not only because of the negative impact on their political careers, but also from anxiety that it might provoke physical threats that could cause personal upheaval and require them to hire round-the-clock security as protection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/27\/republicans-trump-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Swalwell says threats to them and their families are stopping GOP officials from criticizing president US politics live \u2013 latest updates Republicans on Capitol Hill are shying away from criticizing Donald Trump\u2019s policies over fears for their physical safety and that of their families, a Democratic member of Congress has said. Eric Swalwell, a &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/republicans-terrified-of-crossing-trump-due-to-physical-threats-democrat-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}