{"id":11594,"date":"2025-07-23T12:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sen-johnson-media-either-duped-or-complicit-in-russia-election-interference-narrative\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:21:38","slug":"sen-johnson-media-either-duped-or-complicit-in-russia-election-interference-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sen-johnson-media-either-duped-or-complicit-in-russia-election-interference-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Johnson: Media &#8216;either duped or complicit&#8217; in Russia election interference &#8216;narrative&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) accused the media of being &#8220;either duped or complicit&#8221; on the interference of the 2016 election by Russians. &ldquo;I want the press to be honest. I want Pulitzer Prizes to be returned. They were either duped or complicit in pushing that false narrative that put America in political turmoil for years,&rdquo;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5414984-sen-johnson-media-russia-election-interference\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) accused the media of being &#8220;either duped or complicit&#8221; on the interference of the 2016 election by Russians. &ldquo;I want the press to be honest. I want Pulitzer Prizes to be returned. They were either duped or complicit in pushing that false narrative that put America in political turmoil for years,&rdquo;&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}