{"id":16030,"date":"2025-11-26T03:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-rep-calls-to-stop-ridiculous-side-shows-amid-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:20:27","slug":"gop-rep-calls-to-stop-ridiculous-side-shows-amid-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-rep-calls-to-stop-ridiculous-side-shows-amid-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP rep calls to stop \u2018ridiculous side shows\u2019 amid Russia-Ukraine peace deal talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) believes Special Envoy Steve Witkoff instructing a Russian official on how to suggest a peace plan to President Trump is a &ldquo;major problem.&rdquo; The transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call between Witkoff and Yuri Ushakov, a foreign policy aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5622854-fitzpatrick-criticizes-witkoff-ukraine-russia-peace\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) believes Special Envoy Steve Witkoff instructing a Russian official on how to suggest a peace plan to President Trump is a &ldquo;major problem.&rdquo; The transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call between Witkoff and Yuri Ushakov, a foreign policy aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16030","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\/16030","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=16030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}