{"id":48473,"date":"2026-04-17T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48473"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:28:39","slug":"how-jd-vance-is-being-tested-as-trumps-chief-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48473","title":{"rendered":"How JD Vance Is Being Tested as Trump\u2019s Chief Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: How JD Vance Is Being Tested as Trump\u2019s Chief Defender<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Vice President JD Vance has been tasked with defending the Iran war and President Trump\u2019s attacks on Pope Leo XIV. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs describes how that\u2019s put Vance in a particularly difficult position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Gilad Thaler, Jon Miller, Nikolay Nikolov, Rafaela Balster and Jordan Gantz<\/p>\n<p>April 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: How JD Vance Is Being Tested as Trump\u2019s Chief Defender Vice President JD Vance has been tasked with defending the Iran war and President Trump\u2019s attacks on Pope Leo XIV. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs describes how that\u2019s put Vance in a particularly difficult position. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Gilad Thaler, Jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[689,13367,888,71,8315],"class_list":{"0":"post-48473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-chief","9":"tag-defender","10":"tag-tested","11":"tag-trumps","12":"tag-vance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}