{"id":19630,"date":"2018-10-24T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19630"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:22:21","slug":"campbell-soup-disavows-soros-conspiracy-theory-tweeted-by-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19630","title":{"rendered":"Campbell Soup disavows Soros conspiracy theory tweeted by VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York  (CNN Business)<\/cite>Campbell Soup has disavowed claims made by a company lobbyist that George Soros&#8217; foundation is assisting a caravan of migrants bound for the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a tweet sent on Monday, Kelly Johnston, Campbell&#8217;s vice president of government affairs, wrote that the Open Society Foundations has arranged for &#8220;troop carriers&#8221; and &#8220;rail cars&#8221; to support the caravan, which formed in Central America. Johnston&#8217;s Twitter account has been deleted, and the tweet is no longer online. New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenvogel\/status\/1054750329319931904\" target=\"_blank\">posted a screen grab of Johnston&#8217;s tweet<\/a> on Tuesday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The opinions Mr. Johnston expresses on Twitter are his individual views and do not represent the position of Campbell Soup Company,&#8221; a company spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Campbell Soup has disavowed claims made by a company lobbyist that George Soros&#8217; foundation is assisting a caravan of migrants bound for the United States.In a tweet sent on Monday, Kelly Johnston, Campbell&#8217;s vice president of government affairs, wrote that the Open Society Foundations has arranged for &#8220;troop carriers&#8221; and &#8220;rail cars&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}