{"id":68424,"date":"2026-03-08T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/lev-parnas-ex-member-of-trumps-cult-runs-for-congress-as-florida-democrat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:58:33","slug":"lev-parnas-ex-member-of-trumps-cult-runs-for-congress-as-florida-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/lev-parnas-ex-member-of-trumps-cult-runs-for-congress-as-florida-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lev Parnas, ex-member of Trump\u2019s \u2018cult\u2019, runs for Congress as Florida Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parnas, who worked with Rudy Giuliani to find or manufacture dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, says he \u2018woke up\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian American businessman who served <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/lev-parnas-sentenced-20-months-prison-campaign-finance-wire-fraud-and-false-statements\">a 20-month sentence<\/a> for campaign contributions to Republican politicians, including Donald Trump, that secretly came from a Russian oligarch, has announced a bid to unseat Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar, a Cuban American Republican who is in her third term as representative for Florida\u2019s 27th congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>Parnas rose to national attention during Trump\u2019s first impeachment trial in 2019, when it emerged that he had been the first to ask Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/01\/30\/unravel-plot-marie-yovanovitch-senate-needs-hear-lev-parnas\/\">to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine<\/a>, Marie Yovanovitch, and then worked with former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to press Ukrainian officials to make false claims about corruption by Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/08\/lev-parnas-ukraine-congress-florida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parnas, who worked with Rudy Giuliani to find or manufacture dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, says he \u2018woke up\u2019 Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian American businessman who served a 20-month sentence for campaign contributions to Republican politicians, including Donald Trump, that secretly came from a Russian oligarch, has announced a bid to unseat Mar\u00eda Elvira &#8230; <a title=\"Lev Parnas, ex-member of Trump\u2019s \u2018cult\u2019, runs for Congress as Florida Democrat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/lev-parnas-ex-member-of-trumps-cult-runs-for-congress-as-florida-democrat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lev Parnas, ex-member of Trump\u2019s \u2018cult\u2019, runs for Congress as Florida Democrat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}