{"id":351499,"date":"2026-06-08T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:35:08","slug":"live-updates-trump-talks-anti-weaponization-fund-california-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351499\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump talks \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund, California elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1h\">Trump sat for an interview with \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Kristen Welker on Friday, discussing topics including the war with Iran, gas prices and the \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1k\">Throughout the interview, which aired yesterday, Trump made a series of false, misleading or exaggerated comments, including on the Iran war, gas prices, the Jan. 6 riot and California&#8217;s primary elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1n\">NBC News reporters dug into some of the president\u2019s remarks. Here are the facts behind the claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1q\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/fact-checking-trump-interview-meet-press-june-2026-rcna348518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump sat for an interview with \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Kristen Welker on Friday, discussing topics including the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-351499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}