{"id":257006,"date":"2016-07-20T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gop-senator-ernst-daesh-exists-in-all-50-us-states\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:57:40","slug":"gop-senator-ernst-daesh-exists-in-all-50-us-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/gop-senator-ernst-daesh-exists-in-all-50-us-states\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator Ernst: Daesh exists in all 50 US states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Senator Joni Ernst says the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has a presence in all 50 American states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ernst made the remarks on Monday while speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where speakers slammed President Barack Obama\u2019s and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s record on fighting the Takfiri group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration has called [Daesh] junior varsity adversaries, ignoring some of the best advice they were given,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cThey represent a threat that is not limited to the Middle East, and which is spreading rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, according to the FBI, ISIS is present in all 50 states,\u201d she added. \u201cTerrorists from ISIS are in every one of our 50 states. They will use whatever weapons they have: guns, trucks, knives, poisons, and bombs to kill innocent people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ernst&#8217;s comments appeared to be based on a statement made by FBI Director James Comey last year when he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/19\/475895\/GOP-senator-Daesh-50-US-states\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Joni Ernst says the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has a presence in all 50 American states. Ernst made the remarks on Monday while speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where speakers slammed President Barack Obama\u2019s and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s record on fighting the Takfiri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}