{"id":91592,"date":"2017-09-17T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trump-retweets-edited-video-of-him-hitting-hillary-clinton-with-golf-ball.html"},"modified":"2017-09-17T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:24:57","slug":"trump-retweets-edited-video-of-him-hitting-hillary-clinton-with-golf-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-retweets-edited-video-of-him-hitting-hillary-clinton-with-golf-ball.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump retweets edited video of him hitting Hillary Clinton with golf ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t                            <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><br \/>\n\t                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/media2.foxnews.com\/BrightCove\/694940094001\/2017\/09\/16\/896\/504\/694940094001_5578217937001_5578211868001-vs.jpg?ve=1tl=1\" alt=\"President Trump making new push to close tax loopholes and slash rates for middle class, businesses\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Calls to pass President Trump&#8217;s simplified tax reform plan<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>President Trump making new push to close tax loopholes and slash rates for middle class, businesses<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a GIF that shows him hitting a golf ball that seemingly hits Hillary Clinton in the back and knocks her down as she boards a plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">tweet<\/a>\u00a0shared by Trump included this text: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s amazing golf swing #CrookedHillary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the video appeared to be a doctored version of news footage from 2011 that showed then-Secretary of State Clinton falling after climbs the stairs to board a plane.<\/p>\n<p>The GIF originally was\u00a0posted by\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">a Twitter user<\/a>\u00a0whose bio includes the hashtags \u201c#LockHerup,\u201d \u201c#ObamaGate\u201d and \u201c#SusanRice,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction to Trump\u2019s retweet has been mixed, with some saying it was a joke, while others have said it doesn&#8217;t befit the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.,\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">quote-tweeted an article<\/a>\u00a0about the GIF, writing, \u201cclASSy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetweeting this kind of misogynistic video might be below the standards of even this President,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Sunday morning, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., called Trump\u2019s tweet against Clinton \u201cdistressing \u2026 to have a president that, frankly, will tweet and retweet things as juvenile as that.\u201d Schiff added: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t help him in terms of his stature, it doesn\u2019t help in terms of the stature of our whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also stirred outrage via Twitter online when, in July, he retweeted a GIF of himself\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">beating up<\/a>\u00a0someone with the CNN logo superimposed on the person&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/xtSS9Myxc0E\/trump-retweets-edited-video-him-hitting-hillary-clinton-with-golf-ball.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls to pass President Trump&#8217;s simplified tax reform plan President Trump making new push to close tax loopholes and slash rates for middle class, businesses President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a GIF that shows him hitting a golf ball that seemingly hits Hillary Clinton in the back and knocks her down as she boards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}