{"id":2258,"date":"2018-02-07T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/dnc-on-the-white-houses-defense-of-rob-porter\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:26:00","slug":"dnc-on-the-white-houses-defense-of-rob-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-white-houses-defense-of-rob-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on the White House\u2019s Defense of Rob Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DNC Women&rsquo;s Media Director Elizabeth Renda issued the following statement on the White House ignoring Rob Porter&rsquo;s history of domestic violence and its continued defense of him today. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This disturbing episode speaks volumes about the values of this President and his most senior aides. Clearly, the President who promised to hire &lsquo;the best people&rsquo; has set no standard for the character of those who serve in some of the most important positions in our government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With its dismissal of warnings about Porter&rsquo;s past and continued defense of him today, the White House is turning its back on women yet again. Donald Trump has created a moral vacuum in our nation&rsquo;s highest office. We shouldn&rsquo;t have to beg our White House to condemn domestic violence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Women&rsquo;s Media Director Elizabeth Renda issued the following statement on the White House ignoring Rob Porter&rsquo;s history of domestic violence and its continued defense of him today. &nbsp; &nbsp; &ldquo;This disturbing episode speaks volumes about the values of this President and his most senior aides. Clearly, the President who promised to hire &lsquo;the best <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on the White House\u2019s Defense of Rob Porter - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-white-houses-defense-of-rob-porter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-02-07T23:26:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-white-houses-defense-of-rob-porter\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-the-white-houses-defense-of-rob-porter\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on the White House\u2019s Defense of Rob Porter - 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