{"id":71853,"date":"2017-08-10T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/%e2%80%8b1-big-thing-the-committee-to-save-america"},"modified":"2017-08-10T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:02:43","slug":"%e2%80%8b1-big-thing-the-committee-to-save-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/%e2%80%8b1-big-thing-the-committee-to-save-america","title":{"rendered":"\u200b1 big thing: The Committee to Save America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/e2808b1-big-thing-the-committee-to-save-america.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one of the most intriguing \u2014 and consequential \u2014 theories circulating inside the White House: The generals, the New Yorkers and Republican congressional leaders see themselves as an unofficial committee to protect Trump and the nation from disaster.<\/p>\n<p>This loose alliance is informal. But as one top official told me: \u201cIf you see a guy about to stab someone with a knife, you don\u2019t need to huddle to decide to grab the knife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The theory was described to Jim VandeHei and me in a series of private chats with high-ranking officials:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/axios-am-2471311959.html?rebelltitem=1\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/axios-am-2471311959.html?rebelltitem=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s one of the most intriguing \u2014 and consequential \u2014 theories circulating inside the White House: The generals, the New Yorkers and Republican congressional leaders see themselves as an unofficial committee to protect Trump and the nation from disaster. This loose alliance is informal. But as one top official told me: \u201cIf you see a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}