{"id":1986353,"date":"2023-07-30T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slams-gop-candidate-will-hurd-for-claiming-hes-running-to-stay-out-of-prison\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T22:11:43","slug":"trump-slams-gop-candidate-will-hurd-for-claiming-hes-running-to-stay-out-of-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slams-gop-candidate-will-hurd-for-claiming-hes-running-to-stay-out-of-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticizes GOP candidate Will Hurd for saying he&#8217;s running to avoid prison."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-slams-gop-candidate-will-hurd-for-claiming-hes-running-to-stay-out-of-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986353&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Donald Trump Fires Back at Will Hurd&#8217;s Accusation<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">hold back<\/a> in his response to former\u200b Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who claimed that Trump is \u200bonly running for president to avoid going \u200dto prison.\u2064 Hurd, who is running for \u200bthe\u200d Republican presidential nomination, made the accusation during a recent event in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Trump took to his Truth Social platform to\u200c express his thoughts on the\u2064 matter. \u200cHe called \u2063Hurd a \u2063&#8221;little known, failed former Congressman&#8221; and criticized \u2062his performance in Congress. Trump also mentioned that\u2063 Hurd was booed off the stage\u2064 when he made the accusation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Anyway, he got \u200dSERIOUSLY booed off \u2064the stage when he said I was running &#8216;to stay out of jail.&#8217; Wrong, if I wasn&#8217;t running, or running and doing\u200b badly \u2063(like him &#038; Christie!), with no chance to win, these prosecutions \u200bwould never have been brought or happened!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hurd, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-takes-heat-for-killing-trumps-opioid-treatment-prescription-plan-praised-by-doctors\/\" title=\"Biden Takes Heat For Killing Trump\u2019s Opioid-Treatment Prescription Plan Praised By Doctors\">previously announced<\/a> that he would not seek another term in Congress, stood by his statement and emphasized the need for GOP presidential contenders to challenge Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Real leadership is\u200b standing up and fighting for what&#8217;s \u2064right for America. It&#8217;s\u2064 not tiptoeing around Donald Trump. Anyone who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slams-gop-candidate-will-hurd-for-claiming-hes-running-to-stay-out-of-prison\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes GOP candidate Will Hurd for saying he's running to avoid prison.\">idly sits back<\/a> and doesn&#8217;t call him out is only enabling\u2062 him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-\u2062 Will Hurd<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the\u200c event, Hurd stated that Trump is running\u200c for president to avoid going to prison, which was met \u200dwith boos from the crowd. Trump&#8217;s response was swift and direct, dismissing the accusations as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-finally-released-on-2-million-cash-bond\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse FINALLY Released on  Million Cash Bond\">politically motivated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wasn&#8217;t the only\u200d target of criticism at the event. Former Arkansas\u2063 Gov. Asa Hutchinson also took a jab at\u2064 him, highlighting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-manhattan-da-defends-woman-who-stabbed-bodega-worker\/\" title=\"Soros-Backed Manhattan DA Defends Woman Who Stabbed Bodega Worker\">pending criminal cases<\/a> against Trump and calling for a new direction for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded to Hutchinson&#8217;s comments on his Truth Social platform, questioning Hutchinson&#8217;s credibility and accusing him of playing into the hands of \u2064Marxists.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy, Trump remains confident in his leadership and popularity among Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cpost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-slams-gop-candidate-will-hurd-claiming-running-stay-prison\/\">Trump Slams \u200dGOP Candidate \u200cWill Hurd for\u2063 Claiming He&#8217;s Running to &#8216;Stay Out of Prison&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u2063Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump angrily responded to former Rep. Will Hurd&#8217;s accusation that he is running for president solely to avoid imprisonment. Hurd, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, made the statement during the Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1986354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}