{"id":29854,"date":"2022-12-05T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=29854"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:09:58","slug":"republican-leaders-mostly-silent-over-donald-trumps-call-to-suspend-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/12\/05\/republican-leaders-mostly-silent-over-donald-trumps-call-to-suspend-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican leaders mostly silent over Donald Trump&#8217;s call to suspend the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usa news: As party leaders remained silent, a few Republicans on Sunday rejected Donald Trump&#8217;s extraordinary suggestion for &#8220;termination&#8221; of the U.S. Constitution and his installation as president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is what kills my party right now,&#8221; said former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, a Republican who is considering a 2024 presidential campaign against Trump and spoke on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Lawler, an incoming House Republican from New York, told CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; that &#8220;obviously, I don&#8217;t support&#8221; Trump&#8217;s demands, and that the Constitution exists &#8220;to protect the rights of every American.&#8221; Lawler and others suggested that Trump needs to get past his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden: &#8220;I think the former president would be well-advised to focus on the future, if he is going to run for president again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usa news: As party leaders remained silent, a few Republicans on Sunday rejected Donald Trump&rsquo;s extraordinary suggestion for &ldquo;termination&rdquo; of the U.S. Constitution and his installation as president. &ldquo;This is what kills my party right now,&rdquo; said former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, a Republican who is considering a 2024 presidential campaign against Trump and spoke on ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;This Week.&rdquo; Mike Lawler, an incoming House Republican from New York, told CNN&rsquo;s &ldquo;State of the Union&rdquo; that &ldquo;obviously, I don&rsquo;t support&rdquo; Trump&rsquo;s demands, and that the Constitution exists &ldquo;to protect the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29856,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854\/revisions\/29856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}