{"id":56197,"date":"2026-03-20T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=56197"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:05:07","slug":"joe-kent-notes-the-eerie-timing-of-the-fbi-arresting-asif-merchant-hours-before-the-butler-pa-attempt-on-trumps-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=56197","title":{"rendered":"Joe Kent notes the eerie timing of the FBI arresting Asif Merchant hours before the Butler, PA attempt on Trump\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Kent notes the eerie timing of the FBI arresting Asif Merchant hours before the Butler, PA attempt on Trump\u2019s life<\/p>\n<p>The FBI manufactured Merchant\u2019s supposed plot to kill Trump, and blamed it on Iran<\/p>\n<p>Trump justified killing Khamenei as revenge for this <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uuavQLyRP4\">pic.twitter.com\/uuavQLyRP4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBlumenthal\/status\/2034492932871332350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}