{"id":282956,"date":"2016-12-06T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-his-children-will-make-us-a-banana-republic-report\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:09:55","slug":"trump-his-children-will-make-us-a-banana-republic-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-his-children-will-make-us-a-banana-republic-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, his children will make US a \u2018banana republic\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US State Department officials are increasingly concerned that President-elect Donald Trump will make America a \u201cbanana republic\u201d by allowing his adult children to assume the role of freelance ambassadors, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes us look like we\u2019re some sort of banana republic,&#8221; one State Department official told <em>POLITICO <\/em>in a report published on Tuesday. &#8220;This is not the way that grown-up nations do things.&#8221; The report did not reveal the name of the official.<\/p>\n<p>State Department employees are very upset that Trump\u2019s children could blur the line between their business affairs and America&#8217;s foreign affairs, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump&#8217;s daughter, Ivanka, was seen attending a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, creating fears among some circles the president-elect&#8217;s family will wield unparalleled influence over his political duties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of Trump&#8217;s sons reportedly discussed how to resolve the years-old Syrian crisis with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/06\/496726\/Trump-children-will-make-America-banana-republic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US State Department officials are increasingly concerned that President-elect Donald Trump will make America a \u201cbanana republic\u201d by allowing his adult children to assume the role of freelance ambassadors, a report says. \u201cIt makes us look like we\u2019re some sort of banana republic,&#8221; one State Department official told POLITICO in a report published on Tuesday. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282956","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=282956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}