{"id":79674,"date":"2026-10-07T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/trump-backs-away-from-top-aides-who-reportedly-advised-pro-russia-government\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:55:27","slug":"trump-backs-away-from-top-aides-who-reportedly-advised-pro-russia-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/trump-backs-away-from-top-aides-who-reportedly-advised-pro-russia-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any \u2018conflict\u2019 after reports of work in Republika Srpska<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117400465758567373\">distanced himself<\/a> from two top advisers on Wednesday, claiming he did not have \u201cany idea who else they work for\u201d, after it was reported they spent the weekend assisting a pro-Russia government in the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>On Truth Social, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117400465758567373\">Trump wrote<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/may\/01\/trump-campaign-chief-lacivita-liberal-party-australia-ntwnfb-election-claims\">Chris LaCivita<\/a>, the co-manager of his 2024 presidential campaign, and James Blair, a campaign adviser and White House deputy chief of staff on leave of absence, \u201care outside consultants\u201d and \u201cdo not work for me other than as outside consultants\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/07\/trump-advisers-republika-srpska\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any \u2018conflict\u2019 after reports of work in Republika Srpska Donald Trump distanced himself from two top advisers on Wednesday, claiming he did not have \u201cany idea who else they work for\u201d, after it was reported they spent the weekend assisting a pro-Russia government in the Balkans. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/trump-backs-away-from-top-aides-who-reportedly-advised-pro-russia-government\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79674","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=79674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}