{"id":25701,"date":"2017-02-07T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25701"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T22:00:45","slug":"bloomberg-trump-quips-hed-destroy-texas-lawmaker-who-irked-sheriff-over-forfeiture-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25701","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: Trump Quips He\u2019d \u2018Destroy\u2019 Texas Lawmaker Who Irked Sheriff [over forfeiture reform]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-quips-d-destroy-career-193347486.html\">Trump Quips He\u2019d \u2018Destroy\u2019 Texas Lawmaker Who Irked Sheriff<\/a> by Toluse Olorunnipa &#038; Margaret Talev:<\/p>\n<p>President Trump jokes about destroying a politician&#8217;s career<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Donald Trump offered to inflict political damage on lawmakers who try to limit civil asset forfeiture, making a joke about a practice that has come under serious criticism in recent years from Democrats and libertarian-minded Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting at the White House with county sheriffs, Trump said he would \u201cdestroy\u201d the career of a Texas state legislator who had proposed restrictions on seizures of property belonging to suspected criminals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for the rule of law in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg: Trump Quips He\u2019d \u2018Destroy\u2019 Texas Lawmaker Who Irked Sheriff by Toluse Olorunnipa &#038; Margaret Talev: President Trump jokes about destroying a politician&#8217;s career<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25702,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25701\/revisions\/25702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}