{"id":70587,"date":"2017-04-05T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70587"},"modified":"2017-04-05T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T23:00:32","slug":"trump-claims-susan-rice-may-have-committed-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70587","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims Susan Rice may have committed crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY JORDAN FABIAN<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=thehill2300_nws_pol_sec&amp;videoId=32223169\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President Trump on Wednesday claimed that former President <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/barack-obama\" data-nid=\"188226\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>national security adviser Susan Rice may have committed a crime by requesting the identities of Trump associates who were mentioned in U.S. surveillance, though he did not provide proof.<\/p>\n<p>Rice has denied leaking the names of Trump associates and denied she did anything improper.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/05\/us\/politics\/trump-interview-susan-rice.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0if Rice committed a crime, Trump said, \u201cDo I think? Yes, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump did not present any evidence to support that claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be the biggest story,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt\u2019s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/327420-trump-claims-susan-rice-may-have-committed-crime\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/327420-trump-claims-susan-rice-may-have-committed-crime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}