{"id":359260,"date":"2018-05-01T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-trying-to-avoid-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:36:59","slug":"presstv-trump-trying-to-avoid-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-trying-to-avoid-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;Trump trying to avoid impeachment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is dialing up efforts to avoid impeachment, GOP sources as the 2018 midterms approach, giving Democrats the chance to win the majority in the US House of Representatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If democrats take control of the chamber, they could initiate an impeachment debate and congressional investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is super important to the White House, and really the whole White House is very focused on it,\u201d a source told The Hill. \u201cThe president is expected to dial up efforts in this regard during and after the August recess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Maxine Waters, Democratic representative from California, 70 percent of Democrats want to impeach the president, an idea strongly supported within the party\u2019s liberal base.<\/p>\n<p>Such comments have made the president understand the significance of protecting his party\u2019s majority, particularly in the House.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180501\/fad22223-3375-44ea-ade7-a7321215d922.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks onstage during the Human Rights Campaign&#8217;s 2018 Los&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/01\/560338\/Trump-trying-to-avoid-impeachment-as-2018-midterms-near-GOP-sources\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is dialing up efforts to avoid impeachment, GOP sources as the 2018 midterms approach, giving Democrats the chance to win the majority in the US House of Representatives. If democrats take control of the chamber, they could initiate an impeachment debate and congressional investigation. \u201cIt is super important to the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359260","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=359260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}