{"id":16994,"date":"2025-12-20T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ufc-fighter-bucks-trump-white-house-event-over-epstein-controversy-im-good-dude\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:21:22","slug":"ufc-fighter-bucks-trump-white-house-event-over-epstein-controversy-im-good-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ufc-fighter-bucks-trump-white-house-event-over-epstein-controversy-im-good-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC fighter bucks Trump White House event over Epstein controversy: \u2018I\u2019m good, dude\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC fighter Sean Strickland said Friday that he will not participate in the White House fight next year, citing the Trump administration&rsquo;s controversy around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;d wanna do the White House&hellip; if there was some kind of inclusion for fans,&rdquo; Strickland told video streamer Adin Ross and&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5658459-sean-strictland-ufc-fighter-white-house-epstein-files\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC fighter Sean Strickland said Friday that he will not participate in the White House fight next year, citing the Trump administration&rsquo;s controversy around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;d wanna do the White House&hellip; if there was some kind of inclusion for fans,&rdquo; Strickland told video streamer Adin Ross and&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16994","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\/16994","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=16994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}