{"id":369992,"date":"2018-07-19T03:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-white-house-defends-trump-hes-tough\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T03:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T02:45:14","slug":"presstv-white-house-defends-trump-hes-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-white-house-defends-trump-hes-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-White House defends Trump: He\u2019s tough!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hits back at reporters wondering why US President Donald Trump undermined his intelligence community\u2019s assessment on alleged Russia meddling and instead sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sanders had to deny the Helsinki bow on Wednesday as her boss had done upon returning to the US as pressure mounted on him over denial of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly we\u2019ve called them out. We\u2019ve been tough. We\u2019ve approached this in a totally different fashion than has been previously done, because what\u2019s been done in the past hasn\u2019t worked,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cBut to act like he hasn\u2019t been tough on Russia, that he hasn\u2019t called them out, is simply not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently it was pointed out that the White House has reversed course twice in the last three days on statements by the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why should this president have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/07\/19\/568542\/WH-defends-Trump-Hes-tough-on-Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hits back at reporters wondering why US President Donald Trump undermined his intelligence community\u2019s assessment on alleged Russia meddling and instead sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland. Sanders had to deny the Helsinki bow on Wednesday as her boss had done upon returning to the US [&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-369992","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\/369992","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=369992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}