{"id":249,"date":"2020-02-12T22:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2025-04-14T03:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:03:27","slug":"cartoons-donald-trump-acquittal-and-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/12\/cartoons-donald-trump-acquittal-and-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoons: Donald Trump, acquittal and the rule of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a big week for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday he delivered a State of the Union address that included a Presidential Medal of Freedom for Rush Limbaugh and Nancy Pelosi ripping up a ceremonial copy of the speech.<\/p>\n<p>The next day he was acquitted of impeachment charges by a GOP-controlled Senate and he subsequently removed a number of employees who testified as part of the House investigation from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>And then this week his longtime ally, Roger Stone, caught a break when DOJ officials decided to step in and reduce their recommended sentence, prompting all four trial attorneys to resign or withdraw from the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a big week for President Donald Trump. Last Tuesday he delivered a State of the Union address that included a Presidential Medal of Freedom for Rush Limbaugh and<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/12\/cartoons-donald-trump-acquittal-and-the-rule-of-law\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cartoons: Donald Trump, acquittal and the rule of law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sewellconsultancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}