{"id":22410,"date":"2026-06-08T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/how-trump-allies-turned-a-consumer-watchdog-into-a-political-weapon-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:22:50","slug":"how-trump-allies-turned-a-consumer-watchdog-into-a-political-weapon-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/how-trump-allies-turned-a-consumer-watchdog-into-a-political-weapon-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump allies turned a consumer watchdog into a political weapon &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxNMzRmWTJXREc3M1NwVWE2Z3VWTEJKcmpVX015Z3ZSMFhvbmpYVzlmUktiUTBVS2ZxYVcxQlBvcnJWclNERE9hLXFTN2Q0VkY4Umw1Ym5fWUdLUmZ0TXctNVF3RDhTMzQzdk9IRHB5RXdSR0NURG1HSWx6SUFraEExYkJfWGtnMEI0SjZBSzdLX1NuSTA0ZlRpcjZHSE5wUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">How Trump allies turned a consumer watchdog into a political weapon<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxNMzRmWTJXREc3M1NwVWE2Z3VWTEJKcmpVX015Z3ZSMFhvbmpYVzlmUktiUTBVS2ZxYVcxQlBvcnJWclNERE9hLXFTN2Q0VkY4Umw1Ym5fWUdLUmZ0TXctNVF3RDhTMzQzdk9IRHB5RXdSR0NURG1HSWx6SUFraEExYkJfWGtnMEI0SjZBSzdLX1NuSTA0ZlRpcjZHSE5wUQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Trump allies turned a consumer watchdog into a political weapon&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Postsource<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}