{"id":368281,"date":"2018-07-06T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ex-cia-chief-compares-trump-to-convicted-fraudster\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:25:53","slug":"presstv-ex-cia-chief-compares-trump-to-convicted-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ex-cia-chief-compares-trump-to-convicted-fraudster\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Ex-CIA chief compares Trump to convicted fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan has once again blasted America\u2019s leadership, comparing US President Donald Trump to a convicted fraudster.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Brennan made the comparison in a Friday tweet between Trump and Bernie Madoff, who has been convicted in the largest financial fraud in US history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cYou are to governance &amp; politics what Bernie Madoff was to the stock market &amp; investment advice. The two of you share a remarkably unethical ability to deceive &amp; manipulate others, building Ponzi schemes to aggrandize yourselves,\u201d the former CIA chief tweeted. \u201cTruth &amp; justice ultimately caught up with Bernie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBrennan\/status\/1015047562959745024\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You are to governance &amp; politics what Bernie Madoff was to the stock market &amp; investment advice. The two of you share a remarkably unethical ability to deceive &amp; manipulate others, building Ponzi schemes to aggrandize yourselves. Truth &amp; justice ultimately caught up with Bernie. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lRKkWf3Aoh\">https:\/\/t.co\/lRKkWf3Aoh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/06\/567260\/CIA-John-Brennan-Donald-Trump-Bernie-Madoff-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan has once again blasted America\u2019s leadership, comparing US President Donald Trump to a convicted fraudster. Brennan made the comparison in a Friday tweet between Trump and Bernie Madoff, who has been convicted in the largest financial fraud in US history. \u201cYou are to governance &amp; politics what [&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-368281","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\/368281","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=368281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}