{"id":897169,"date":"2026-04-30T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/30\/letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:40:32","slug":"letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/30\/letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: That was unwise by Trump and GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party and Donald Trump recently did two unwise things.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Party subpoenaed Bill Clinton to testify under oath, which he did. Formerly relatively quiet, he is now speaking out often on current issues.<\/li>\n<li>Trump said seminary student and Texas Senatorial Candidate Democrat James Talarico is &ldquo;an insult to Jesus.&rdquo; thus putting him into the national conversation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>uh oh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linda Punches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Everett<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party and Donald Trump recently did two unwise things.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Party subpoenaed Bill Clinton to testify under oath, which he did. Formerly relatively quiet, he is now speaking out often on current issues.<\/li>\n<li>Trump said seminary student and Texas Senatorial Candidate Democrat James Talarico is &ldquo;an insult to Jesus.&rdquo; thus putting him into the national conversation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":3361,"featured_media":897170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/30\/letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Letter: That was unwise by Trump and GOP","url":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/30\/letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2026\/04\/30\/letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/42204198_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/42204198_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg"},"articleSection":"Letters","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"none"}],"creator":["none"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"HeraldNet.com","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2026-04-30T08:30:00Z","datePublished":"2026-04-30T08:30:00Z","dateModified":"2026-05-12T17:40:32Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Letter: That was unwise by Trump and GOP\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/30\\\/letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/30\\\/letter-that-was-unwise-by-trump-and-gop\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/8\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/42204198_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.heraldnet.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/8\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/42204198_web1_260317-ADW-Letter_1.jpeg\"},\"articleSection\":\"Letters\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"none\"}],\"creator\":[\"none\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"HeraldNet.com\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2026-04-30T08:30:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-30T08:30:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-12T17:40:32Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/heraldnet.com\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897171,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897169\/revisions\/897171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}