{"id":804,"date":"2025-12-05T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/cartoons-donald-trump-acquittal-and-the-rule-of-law-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:29:30","slug":"cartoons-donald-trump-acquittal-and-the-rule-of-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/cartoons-donald-trump-acquittal-and-the-rule-of-law-2\/","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 class=\"text-justify mb-2\" >It&#8217;s been a big week for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sleepystork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}