{"id":27563,"date":"2018-02-09T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/09\/why-domestic-abusers-thrive-in-trumps-white-house-jessica-valenti\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:56:00","slug":"why-domestic-abusers-thrive-in-trumps-white-house-jessica-valenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27563","title":{"rendered":"Why domestic abusers thrive in Trump&#039;s White House | Jessica Valenti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House knew for quite some time about Rob Porter\u2019s history of domestic violence but continued to rally behind himIt\u2019s no secret that Trump respects men who keep women in their place: \u201cYou have to treat \u2018em like shit.\u201d Perhaps that\u2019s why top White House staffer Rob Porter got a hero\u2019s goodbye this week, even as a picture of his ex-wife\u2019s battered face was splashed across the news. Porter, accused of assaulting both of his ex-wives and a former girlfriend, gave his resignation but \u201cwas not pressured to do so,\u201d according to press secretary Sarah Sanders. In fact, Sanders lauded Porter as having the full confidence of the president and General John Kelly, and took the time to read Porter\u2019s statement, in which he called the accusations \u201cvile\u201d and a \u201csmear campaign.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/09\/why-domestic-abusers-trump-white-house\" target=\"_blank\">Why domestic abusers thrive in Trump&#039;s White House | Jessica Valenti<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House knew for quite some time about Rob Porter\u2019s history of domestic violence but continued to rally behind himIt\u2019s no secret that Trump respects men who keep women in their place: \u201cYou have to treat \u2018em like shit.\u201d Perhaps that\u2019s why top White House staffer Rob Porter got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}