In a bold move that\u2019s igniting both cheers and outrage, President Donald J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump has officially pardoned former Lt. Mark Bashaw,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the military officer who became a lightning rod during the COVID era for refusing to follow federal mask mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lt. Bashaw was court-martialed in 2022 after standing against<\/p>\n\n\n\n
face mask requirements and other pandemic protocols while serving in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Branded as defiant by some, and a patriot by others,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
his case drew national attention for exposing the tension between obedience and conscience in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a bold move that\u2019s igniting both cheers and outrage, President Donald J. Trump has officially pardoned former Lt. Mark Bashaw, the military officer who became a lightning rod during the COVID era for refusing to follow federal mask mandates. Lt. Bashaw was court-martialed in 2022 after standing against face mask requirements and other pandemic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9268,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions\/9268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}