{"id":6643,"date":"2024-04-05T03:09:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T03:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/trump-media-deal-faces-calls-for-inquiry-over-alleged-influence-peddling-9\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T03:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T03:09:45","slug":"trump-media-deal-faces-calls-for-inquiry-over-alleged-influence-peddling-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/trump-media-deal-faces-calls-for-inquiry-over-alleged-influence-peddling-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Media deal faces calls for inquiry over alleged \u2018influence peddling\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stock debut that could net the former president billions was kept afloat by opaque loans provided in part by Anton Postolnikov<\/p>\n<p>Democratic groups escalated calls on Thursday for Congress to investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> social media company Trump Media after a report that it relied partly on emergency loans in 2022 traced back to a Russian-American under federal criminal investigation to make it to its stock market debut.<\/p>\n<p>The move increased political scrutiny into the merger between Trump Media Technology Group and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition \u2013 which could net Trump about $4bn \u2013 as federal prosecutors secured guilty pleas from two investors who insider-traded on the deal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/apr\/04\/trump-media-stock-russia-links\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock debut that could net the former president billions was kept afloat by opaque loans provided in part by Anton Postolnikov Democratic groups escalated calls on Thursday for Congress to investigate Donald Trump\u2019s social media company Trump Media after a report that it relied partly on emergency loans in 2022 traced back to a Russian-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}