{"id":66485,"date":"2021-01-03T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-some-gop-members-are-trying-to-insall-a-dictator\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:05:15","slug":"opinion-some-gop-members-are-trying-to-insall-a-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-some-gop-members-are-trying-to-insall-a-dictator\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Some GOP members are trying to install a dictator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Republican members of congress are trying to overturn the presidential election. All the states certified their elections were fair and who the winner was. President Donald Trump&rsquo;s attorneys filed dozens of lawsuits claiming election fraud and every one was thrown out. Mr. Trump&rsquo;s attorney general, William Barr, said there wasn&rsquo;t any election fraud. What these Republican members of congress are trying to do is set Mr. Trump as a dictator, which would destroy our democracy. They should be tried as traitors.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gary Miller, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Juneau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They should be tried as traitors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":66486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66485"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}