{"id":36141,"date":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/trump-sharpens-attacks-on-us-media-as-voice-of-america-employees-put-on-administrative-leave\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:33:08","slug":"trump-sharpens-attacks-on-us-media-as-voice-of-america-employees-put-on-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/trump-sharpens-attacks-on-us-media-as-voice-of-america-employees-put-on-administrative-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sharpens attacks on US media as Voice of America employees put on administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President denounced CNN and MSNBC as \u2018illegal\u2019 and instructed VoA\u2019s parent agency to be eliminated<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump expanded on his threats to the media on Friday, suggesting actions of the press should be deemed illegal and subject to investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that CNN and MS-DNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat [sic] party and in my opinion, they\u2019re really corrupt and they\u2019re illegal, what do they do is illegal,\u201d the president said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/14\/trump-justice-department-speech-criminal-cases\">contentious speech <\/a>at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/15\/trump-media-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President denounced CNN and MSNBC as \u2018illegal\u2019 and instructed VoA\u2019s parent agency to be eliminated Donald Trump expanded on his threats to the media on Friday, suggesting actions of the press should be deemed illegal and subject to investigation. \u201cI believe that CNN and MS-DNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms &#8230; <a title=\"Trump sharpens attacks on US media as Voice of America employees put on administrative leave\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/trump-sharpens-attacks-on-us-media-as-voice-of-america-employees-put-on-administrative-leave\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump sharpens attacks on US media as Voice of America employees put on administrative leave\">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-36141","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\/36141","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=36141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}