{"id":71126,"date":"2026-04-07T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/im-glad-he-backed-off-us-political-leaders-relieved-as-trump-announces-ceasefire\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:56:22","slug":"im-glad-he-backed-off-us-political-leaders-relieved-as-trump-announces-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/im-glad-he-backed-off-us-political-leaders-relieved-as-trump-announces-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m glad he backed off\u2019: US political leaders relieved as Trump announces ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer attacks president\u2019s \u2018ridiculous bluster\u2019 while Republicans cast decision as shrewd tactical move<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/07\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-hormuz-threats-deadline-strikes-middle-east-conflict\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Political leaders and many Americans breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday evening, after Donald Trump announced a provisional ceasefire deal following threats to destroy Iran\u2019s \u201cwhole civilization\u201d if Tehran failed to reopen the strait of Hormuz by a self-imposed deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the agreement, mediated by Pakistan, came roughly 90 minutes before the 8pm ET deadline by which Trump pledged to bomb Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges in a move legal and military scholars said would be considered a war crime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/07\/trump-ceasefire-iran-us-political\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer attacks president\u2019s \u2018ridiculous bluster\u2019 while Republicans cast decision as shrewd tactical move Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Political leaders and many Americans breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday evening, after Donald Trump announced a provisional ceasefire deal following threats to destroy Iran\u2019s \u201cwhole civilization\u201d if Tehran failed to reopen the strait &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I\u2019m glad he backed off\u2019: US political leaders relieved as Trump announces ceasefire\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/im-glad-he-backed-off-us-political-leaders-relieved-as-trump-announces-ceasefire\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I\u2019m glad he backed off\u2019: US political leaders relieved as Trump announces ceasefire\">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-71126","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\/71126","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=71126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}