{"id":381644,"date":"2018-10-19T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-hails-gop-congressman-for-assaulting-journalist\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:24:05","slug":"presstv-trump-hails-gop-congressman-for-assaulting-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-hails-gop-congressman-for-assaulting-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump hails GOP Congressman for assaulting journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has commended a Republican Congressman for assaulting a journalist last year, referring to him as &#8220;my guy&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a rally in Missoula on Thursday night, Trump praised Montana congressman Greg Gianforte.<\/p>\n<p>Gianforte\u00a0assaulted a reporter for British daily The Guardian, Ben Jacobs, back in 2017 during his elections campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s a great guy,&#8221; Trump said referring to\u00a0Gianforte, adding, &#8220;any guy who can do a body slam &#8230; he&#8217;s my guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to &#8220;body slamming&#8221; Jacobs, received a 180-day deferred sentence, 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management and a $300 fine along with a $85 court fee.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said back then he had feared the assault could have damaged Gianforte&#8217;s chances of winning the special congressional election; however, Trump told the crowd at the rally, &#8220;I said wait a minute, I know Montana pretty well, I think it might help him &#8211; and it did&#8221;.\u00a0 Gianforte won the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/19\/577473\/US-Trump-Gianforte-Republican-Democrat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has commended a Republican Congressman for assaulting a journalist last year, referring to him as &#8220;my guy&#8221;. At a rally in Missoula on Thursday night, Trump praised Montana congressman Greg Gianforte. Gianforte\u00a0assaulted a reporter for British daily The Guardian, Ben Jacobs, back in 2017 during his elections campaign. \u201cHe&#8217;s a great [&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-381644","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\/381644","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=381644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}