{"id":266227,"date":"2016-09-08T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/starbucks-ceo-declares-support-for-hillary-clinton\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:08:35","slug":"starbucks-ceo-declares-support-for-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/starbucks-ceo-declares-support-for-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to boycott Starbucks? CEO Declares Support For Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Howard Schultz, the founder and CEO of Starbucks, announces\u00a0support for US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN, Schultz let slip which way he was voting, saying, \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that after the election &#8211; and hopefully Hillary Clinton will be elected president &#8211; that we will begin to see a level of unity and people coming together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he had officially backed Clinton (pictured below)\u00a0with that statement, the CEO responded \u201cI guess I just did. I think it\u2019s obvious Hillary Clinton needs to be the next president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160908\/3ea66e96-431a-4f4f-ae0d-765d173bfcbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Schultz, 63, is known to be politically vocal especially as a corporate leader.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks, which has over 22,500 coffee stores, is one of the companies anti-Israel activists boycott.<\/p>\n<p>According to inminds.co.uk, it details various examples of\u00a0Schultz supposed loyalty to Israel. The website says he\u00a0was even\u00a0given an award for being a Zionis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1998 he was honored by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/09\/08\/483687\/Starbucks-endorses-Hillary-Clinton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Schultz, the founder and CEO of Starbucks, announces\u00a0support for US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. In an interview with CNN, Schultz let slip which way he was voting, saying, \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that after the election &#8211; and hopefully Hillary Clinton will be elected president &#8211; that we will begin to see a level of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266227","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=266227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}