{"id":402053,"date":"2019-03-31T01:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-holder-america-was-never-great\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T01:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:23:16","slug":"prison-planet-com-holder-america-was-never-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-holder-america-was-never-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Holder: America Was Never Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/holder-america-was-never-great\/\"><strong>Free Beacon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 29, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former attorney general Eric Holder said that America has never been \u201cgreat,\u201d during a Wednesday night appearance on MSNBC\u2019s The Beat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aX7ZA9_WaT4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Holder\u2019s comment came in response to a question from host Ari Melber about how it was possible to call America a \u201cleader as a democracy\u201d during the 1800s when women and African-Americans could not vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear these things about \u2018Let\u2019s make America great again,\u2019 I think to myself: \u2018Exactly when did you think America was great?&#8217;\u201d Holder said, in reference to the President Donald Trump\u2019s slogan, which he used frequently at rallies and on merchandising during the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Holder then pointed to instances in the United State\u2019s past when he said America was not \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/holder-america-was-never-great\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, March 29, 2019  at  6:42 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/holder-america-was-never-great.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/holder-america-was-never-great.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free BeaconMarch 29, 2019 Former attorney general Eric Holder said that America has never been \u201cgreat,\u201d during a Wednesday night appearance on MSNBC\u2019s The Beat. Holder\u2019s comment came in response to a question from host Ari Melber about how it was possible to call America a \u201cleader as a democracy\u201d during the 1800s when women [&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-402053","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\/402053","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=402053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}