{"id":296899,"date":"2019-10-18T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T04:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296899"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:58:26","slug":"rick-perry-to-resign-as-trumps-energy-secretary-amid-ukraine-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rick-perry-to-resign-as-trumps-energy-secretary-amid-ukraine-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry to resign as Trump&#8217;s Energy Secretary amid Ukraine probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump said Thursday that Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who has been caught up in the impeachment probe engulfing the US president, was standing down, marking the latest departure of a senior administration figure. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rick has done a fantastic job at Energy but it was time &#8212; three years is a long time,&#8221; Trump said, speaking in Texas. &#8220;We already have his replacement.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came a day after the publication of an interview in which Perry said that &#8212; on Trump&#8217;s orders &#8212; he had communicated with the president&#8217;s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani over alleged corruption in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Trump is threatened with impeachment for pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate his Democratic rivals ahead of the 2020 US elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump said Thursday that Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who has been caught up in the impeachment probe engulfing the US president, was standing down, marking the latest departure of a senior administration figure. &#8220;Rick has done a fantastic job at Energy but it was time &#8212; three years is a long time,&#8221; Trump said, speaking in Texas. &#8220;We already have his replacement.&#8221; The announcement came a day after the publication of an interview in which Perry said that &#8212; on Trump&#8217;s orders &#8212; he had communicated with the president&#8217;s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani over alleged corruption in Ukraine. Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}