{"id":50391,"date":"2026-06-16T03:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50391"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:05:05","slug":"how-the-kratom-industry-won-friends-in-the-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50391","title":{"rendered":"How the Kratom Industry Won Friends in the Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: How the Kratom Industry Won Friends in the Trump Administration<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">A sprawling influence campaign to promote a risky drug called kratom has gained allies among top Trump administration officials. Our investigative reporter Kenneth P. Vogel explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Kenneth P. Vogel, Paul Abowd, Jon Miller, Ray Whitehouse, Stephanie Swart and Rafaela Balster<\/p>\n<p>June 15, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: How the Kratom Industry Won Friends in the Trump Administration A sprawling influence campaign to promote a risky drug called kratom has gained allies among top Trump administration officials. Our investigative reporter Kenneth P. Vogel explains. By Kenneth P. Vogel, Paul Abowd, Jon Miller, Ray Whitehouse, Stephanie Swart and Rafaela Balster June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[794,5064,1545,24779,81,1341],"class_list":{"0":"post-50391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-administration","9":"tag-friends","10":"tag-industry","11":"tag-kratom","12":"tag-trump","13":"tag-won"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50391","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=50391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}