{"id":120728,"date":"2019-01-02T13:16:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=120728"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:29:07","slug":"trending-topic-over-the-holidays-bad-senator-bad-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/02\/trending-topic-over-the-holidays-bad-senator-bad-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Trending topic over the holidays: Bad senator, bad senator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Prim-Pujals-PLD-Website-e1546437907422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120749\"\/><figcaption>Prim Pujals \/ Partido de la Liberaci\u00f3n Dominicana Official Website<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A YouTube video circulated on social media putting in evidence how the ruling party PLD senator for Samana, 75-year old Prim Pujals got involved in a heated discussion with a yet unnamed citizen who called out Pujals for butting into a line at a bank. The long-term legislator and politician called the person who had complained \u201ca damn N \u2013 word.\u201d  The discussion came about because Pujals did not want to stand in line to be served. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The heated exchange was captured on video. In it, the individual tells the legislator \u201cyou can be whoever you are\u201d, adding \u201cwe all have rights.\u201d Several of the people who made videos of the heated exchange told reporters that the confrontation came about because Pujals cut into the line at the bank, without waiting his turn. They told the man: \u201cYou are a piece of s&#8212;,; do you have a gun in order to kill me, you damned N&#8212;&#8211;!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man told the senator: \u201cYou can be whoever you are, we all have rights, (\u2026) of course I will video it, you are not seeing what you are doing.\u201d Others in the line said \u201cthis is right, tape it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story:<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=38mKhxKGA2w\">YouTube<\/a><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5MpXG2NN03k\">YouTube<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/sucesos\/senador-prim-pujals-se-enfrenta-a-un-ciudadano-por-la-fila-de-un-banco-GD11740879\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 January 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube video circulated on social media putting in evidence how the ruling party PLD senator for Samana, 75-year old Prim Pujals got involved in a heated discussion with a yet unnamed citizen who called out Pujals for butting into a line at a bank. The long-term legislator and politician called the person who had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/02\/trending-topic-over-the-holidays-bad-senator-bad-senator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120766,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120728\/revisions\/120766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}