{"id":2571388,"date":"2026-02-19T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-former-prince-andrew-arrested-in-epstein-case\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:41:20","slug":"breaking-former-prince-andrew-arrested-in-epstein-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-former-prince-andrew-arrested-in-epstein-case\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Former Prince Andrew Arrested in Epstein Case"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbreaking-former-prince-andrew-arrested-in-epstein-case%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=2571388&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>Reportedly, a former British prince, Prince Andrew, was arrested in the United Kingdom on suspicion of misconduct in public office in connection with Jeffrey Epstein.thames valley Police said they where assessing reports that, in his role as the U.K. trade envoy, he passed reports to Epstein in 2010. The arrest took place at wood Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, with local media describing a raid by six unmarked cars and about eight plainclothes officers. Mountbatten-Windsor had already been stripped of his royal titles and his residence following revelations tied to Virginia Giuffre\u2019s accusations that Epstein trafficked her to him when she was underage.<\/p>\n<p>The case sits within a broader scrutiny of Epstein\u2019s network and the Epstein files, including documents from Andrew\u2019s time as trade envoy that UK media and the BBC described as a significant development in the inquiry.The matter comes amid decades of public scrutiny: Andrew\u2019s ties to Epstein, his 2011 removal from royal duties, Giuffre\u2019s 2015 court filings alleging trafficking, Epstein\u2019s 2019 death, and ongoing debates over how the case has been handled in both the U.K. and the U.S. UK law allows suspects to be held for up to 96 hours with extensions, with reporting noting the procedural steps involved in such an arrest.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, the former Prince Andrew has been arrested by authorities in the United Kingdom for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260219-uk-police-arrest-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-on-suspicion-of-misconduct-in-public-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France24<\/a> noted that, before the man now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was reportedly taken into custody Thursday for suspicion of misconduct in public office, Thames Valley Police said they were &ldquo;assessing&rdquo; reports that, in his position as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deep-dive-prince-andrews-sordid-belated-fall-everything-wrong-british-royals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K. trade envoy<\/a>, he passed reports to Epstein in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Local media said six unmarked police cars and around eight <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >plain clothed officers arrived<\/a> at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, eastern England, where the king&rsquo;s brother now lives,&rdquo; the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mountbatten-Windsor was already stripped of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/prince-andrew-gives-royal-titles-epstein-association-resurfaces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his titles and residence last year<\/a> after new revelations in a book by Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim who claimed she was trafficked to the royal while she was underage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c70kjr9wjw0t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> correspondent Lucy Manning said her &ldquo;understanding is that there&rsquo;s been a very significant development in the investigation into the Epstein files&rdquo; that had to do with &ldquo;documents from when he was a trade envoy, that are alleged to have been passed to Epstein.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My understanding is that this arrest is just about the misconduct in public office and obviously a very significant moment that the former prince has been arrested,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<p>However, a lot was still unknown as of roughly 6 a.m. Eastern Time &mdash; 11 a.m. U.K. time &mdash; including what precisely he was being held for and what prompted Thames Valley Police to arrest Mountbatten-Windsor in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came on the royal&rsquo;s 66th birthday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Andrew is arrested on his birthday in police raid on Sandringham home <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nn8mExHyCZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/nn8mExHyCZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erin Anderson (@ELAnderson1111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ELAnderson1111\/status\/2024438420529971678?\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The charges came as the former prince&rsquo;s connections to Epstein led to a slow unraveling of his life.<\/p>\n<p>While Andrew had known the financier as early as the late 1990s and celebrated his release from prison in 2009 with Epstein in New York, it wasn&rsquo;t until tabloid photos taken in 2010 that the British media began to put the arrest and Andrew&rsquo;s involvement with Epstein and his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, together.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew&rsquo;s role as the U.K.&rsquo;s special trade envoy was terminated the next year, with the royal conceding he&rsquo;d made a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, court documents from Giuffre&rsquo;s lawsuit against Epstein revealed that she was allegedly trafficked to Andrew while underaged. Epstein&rsquo;s light sentence for sex crimes became an issue again after Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee for U.S. secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta, was criticized for lenient sentencing of the financier while a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein died, allegedly from committed suicide, shortly after his May 2019 arrest on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ghislaine-maxwell-now-accusing-prison-guard-of-abuse\/\" title=\"Ghislaine Maxwell Now Accusing Prison Guard Of Abuse\">sex trafficking charges<\/a>. Later that year, Mountbatten-Windsor gave a widely criticized interview to BBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Newsnight&rdquo; in which he claimed Giuffre&rsquo;s allegations could not be true because he was visiting a Pizza Express restaurant in a London suburb on a day where a picture of the two of them together was reportedly taken.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&ldquo;On the date that&rsquo;s being suggested I was at home with the children&hellip; I&rsquo;d taken Beatrice to Pizza Express in Woking.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Prince Andrew tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maitlis?\">@maitlis<\/a> he was elsewhere the night it has been claimed he had his photo taken with a woman who says they had sex<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Newsnight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Newsnight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XoDEALx5MJ\">pic.twitter.com\/XoDEALx5MJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNewsnight\/status\/1195816154541035525?\">November 16, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He also claimed he could not sweat from a psychosomatic condition he developed during his time serving in the Falklands War, at odds with Giuffre&rsquo;s depiction of him as being sweaty during their encounter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Prince Andrew is &ldquo;in torment&rdquo; this Christmas because his name will likely be released in the new year in the list of 170 Epstein associates.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Prince Andrew failing miserably while trying to defend himself.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a slight problem with, with, with, with, with the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pFT7cLEEi0\">pic.twitter.com\/pFT7cLEEi0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1739339723896975650?\">December 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This led to the then-Duke of York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2025-10-17\/prince-andrew-accusations-timeline-of-the-downfall-of-the-duke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> that he was &ldquo;stepping back from public duties for the foreseeable future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, after he settled a court case with Giuffre, his royal status was downgraded. Then, in 2025, Giuffre passed away &mdash; but not before leaving a memoir in which she said she had sex with Andrew multiple times while underaged and that the royal guessed she was 17 when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles III subsequently stripped Andrew of all of his royal titles and forced him to leave the Royal Lodge. The publication of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-gates-pictured-females-new-epstein-files-photo-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epstein files provided further headaches for Andrew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reported that in cases like Mountbatten-Windsor&rsquo;s, under U.K. law, &ldquo;suspects are held for 12 or 24 hours and are then either charged or released pending further investigation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It added that &ldquo;the absolute longest the former prince can be held for is 96 hours &ndash; but this would require multiple extensions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-s-top-cop-slams-woke-police-force-for-fake-hate-crime-tweet\/\" title=\"U.K.\u2019s Top Cop Slams Woke ... Force For Fake \u2018Hate Crime\u2019 Tweet\">senior police officers<\/a> and a Magistrate&rsquo;s Court.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Danny Shaw, a policing commentator, told the British broadcaster that he would be held in &ldquo;a cell in a custody suite&rdquo; with &ldquo;a bed and a toilet&rdquo; until he was interviewed by police.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! ( opts[inputs[i]]=document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"' + inputs[i] + '\"]' ).value ) ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .required-message' ).style.display='block'; \t\t\t\t\t\treturn; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction input[type=\"submit\"]' ).style.display='none'; \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).src=firefly_loading_gif_url; \t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).style.display='inline-block';  \t\t\t\t\tconsole.log( 'ma subbing' );  \t\t\t\t\tif( firefly_post_id ) opts['post_id']=firefly_post_id;  \t\t\t\t\t\/* Send the data using post with element id name and name2*\/ \t\t\t\t\tvar posting=jQuery.post( firefly_ajax_url, opts );  \t\t\t\t\t\/* Alerts the results *\/ \t\t\t\t\tposting.done( function( response ) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif( response.success ) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log( response.data ); \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-submitting-img' ).style.display='none'; \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction .firefly-sc-confirm' ).style.display='block';  \t\t\t\t\t\t\tdataLayer.push( { 'event': 'submit-correction' } ); \t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> \t     \t\t\t\t\t\t     \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script>console.log(\"ad slot (BA1)\")<\/script> \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a concise paraphrase of the main points:<\/p>\n<p>Several outlets report that former Prince Andrew, now referred to as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has been arrested in the United Kingdom over ties to Jeffrey Epstein. France 24 noted that, before his detention on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Thames Valley Police said they were assessing claims that, in his role as the U.K. trade envoy, he passed information to Epstein in 2010. Local media described a police presence at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, where he lives. Andrew had already had his royal titles and residence removed the previous year after Virginia Giuffre\u2019s accusations that Epstein trafficked her to him when she was underage. BBC\u2019s Lucy Manning said there appeared to be a significant development related to documents from Andrew\u2019s time as trade envoy that allegedly were provided to Epstein. The article discusses Andrew\u2019s long association with Epstein dating back to the late 1990s and the 2010 photos that connected them in the public eye. His trade envoy role was terminated the following year. Giuffre\u2019s 2015 lawsuit and subsequent disclosures, along with broader scrutiny of Epstein\u2019s case, added to the controversy. King Charles III later stripped Andrew of all royal titles and ordered him to leave the Royal Lodge. Under U.K. law, suspects can be held for 12 or 24 hours and, in the most extended cases, up to 96 hours with consent from senior officers and a magistrate; observers noted custody conditions could include a cell with a bed and toilet until interrogation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2571389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-711.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[74115,74113,74114,74116],"class_list":["post-2571388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-epstein-case-2","tag-i-cant-help-promote-an-unverified-arrest-claim-here-are-neutral-tags-you-can-use-instead-breaking-news","tag-prince-andrew-2","tag-royal-family-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-711.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571388","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571392,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571388\/revisions\/2571392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}