{"id":171,"date":"2024-01-25T09:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:54:52","slug":"january-24-2024-letters-from-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/january-24-2024-letters-from-an-american\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJanuary 24, 2024\u201d &#8211; Letters from an American"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cIn his resignation letter, DeWit claimed the recording had been \u201ctaken out of context\u201d and said he had been \u201cset up.\u201d He noted that Lake has \u201ca disturbing tendency to exploit private interactions for personal gain,\u201d calling out \u201cher habit of secretly recording personal and private conversations. This is obviously a concern given how much interaction she has with high profile people including President Trump,\u201d he added. \u201cI believe she orchestrated this entire situation to have control over the state party,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeWit said he had \u201creceived an ultimatum from Lake\u2019s team: resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording. I am truly unsure of its contents,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbut considering our numerous past open conversations as friends, I have decided not to take the risk. I am resigning as Lake requested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/january-24-2024\">https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/january-24-2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn his resignation letter, DeWit claimed the recording had been \u201ctaken out of context\u201d and said he had been \u201cset up.\u201d He noted that Lake has \u201ca disturbing tendency to exploit private interactions for personal gain,\u201d calling out \u201cher habit of secretly recording personal and private conversations. This is obviously a concern given how much&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}