{"id":1099,"date":"2020-11-06T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2020-11-06T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:22:32","slug":"nj-democratic-official-makes-jokes-about-assassinating-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/nj-democratic-official-makes-jokes-about-assassinating-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Democratic Official Makes Jokes about Assassinating Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris Emrich, a NJ Democratic official, refused to resign after Fox News published a post-election tweet with a joke he made about assassinating Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emrich wrote that he would &#8220;need a John Wilkes Booth Project.&#8221; He was referencing John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln back in 1865.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Twitter account can only be seen by Emrich&#8217;s followers, Fox obtained a transcript of the tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the news broke, the tweet was condemned by bipartisan New Jersey officials. There were calls for Emrich&#8217;s resignation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emrich blamed the tweet on stress due to the election. Calling it &#8220;a dumb joke&#8221; and &#8220;not something I&#8217;m proud of,&#8221; he said he has no plans of resigning from the Democratic committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/abraham-lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1103\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Emrich, a NJ Democratic official, refused to resign after Fox News published a post-election tweet with a joke he made about assassinating Trump. Emrich wrote that he would &#8220;need a John Wilkes Booth Project.&#8221; He was referencing John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln back in 1865. While the Twitter account can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceoflakewood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}