{"id":384435,"date":"2018-11-09T23:57:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-activists-protest-to-protect-russia-probe\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T23:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:57:54","slug":"presstv-us-activists-protest-to-protect-russia-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-activists-protest-to-protect-russia-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US activists protest to protect Russia probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Tens of thousands of Americans have staged nationwide rallies in support of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his probe into Russia\u2019s alleged meddling that helped then-Republican candidate Donald Trump win in the 2016 presidential election.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The rallies \u2013 under the banner \u201cNobody is Above the Law\u201d and led by the activist group MoveOn \u2013 were held across the United States on Thursday to advocate for the protection of Mueller and his Russia investigation following Trump\u2019s firing of attorney general Jeff Sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Chanting the slogan &#8220;Hands off Mueller,&#8221; the protesters held signs that read &#8220;Truth Must Triumph,&#8221; and &#8220;Repeal, Replace Trump.&#8221;<\/span><\/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\/20181109\/cee5ebd8-ea42-41e2-a6d7-73c2afd198eb.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>People gather in front of City Hall to take part in a protest to protect the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert\u00a0Mueller, in Los Angeles, California, US, November 8, 2018. (Photo by Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/11\/07\/579393\/Trump-Sessions-Russia-investigation-Mueller\">appointed <\/a>Matthew Whitaker, Sessions\u2019 chief of staff, as acting attorney general after&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/09\/579564\/US-activists-Mueller-probe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Americans have staged nationwide rallies in support of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his probe into Russia\u2019s alleged meddling that helped then-Republican candidate Donald Trump win in the 2016 presidential election. The rallies \u2013 under the banner \u201cNobody is Above the Law\u201d and led by the activist group MoveOn \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384435","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\/384435","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=384435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}