{"id":2386337,"date":"2025-01-03T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T03:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trayon-white-offers-vague-apology-after-hes-sworn-in-to-dc-council-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T04:00:46","slug":"trayon-white-offers-vague-apology-after-hes-sworn-in-to-dc-council-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trayon-white-offers-vague-apology-after-hes-sworn-in-to-dc-council-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trayon White offers vague apology after he\u2019s sworn in to DC Council &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Ftrayon-white-offers-vague-apology-after-hes-sworn-in-to-dc-council-washington-examiner%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=2386337&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--><p>It appears that you&#8217;ve\u2064 requested a summary of \u2063a specific HTML snippet or section of \u200ccode \u200drelated to a button for showing more content, along with some additional styling and layout features. 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Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services to pressure two city agencies to extend contracts to a company tasked with fighting against violent <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of his public arrest in August and the federal indictment, White still <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Trayon_White\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">won <\/a>reelection with 83% of the vote this November.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was administered the oath of office by Democratic Councilwoman Janeese Lewis George, who voted last month to recommend White be kicked out of the council for ethics violations. The vote was unanimous 11-0. In addition to the bribery charges, White is accused of living in a high rise luxury building in Navy Yard instead of inside of&nbsp;Ward 8, which he represents.<\/p>\n<p>White has until Jan. 8 to prepare his defense against the council, when there will be a vote on whether to remove him from office, which will require the vote of approval of 11 of the 13 members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If White is voted to be removed from office, then a special election will need to be held to fill his seat.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, White&rsquo;s trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1909789\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1909789\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trayon White gives unclear apology after DC Council swearing-in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2386338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trayon-White-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5447,38555,5894,39586],"class_list":["post-2386337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-apology","tag-dc-council","tag-politics","tag-trayon-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Trayon-White-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386337","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\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386341,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386337\/revisions\/2386341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}