{"id":287990,"date":"2016-12-31T19:22:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-outsmarts-obama-republican-congressman\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T19:22:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:22:55","slug":"putin-outsmarts-obama-republican-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-outsmarts-obama-republican-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin &#039;outsmarts&#039; Obama: Republican congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russian President Vladimir Putin has &#8220;outsmarted&#8221; his US counterpart, Barack Obama, by refraining from expelling American diplomats in response to a similar move by Washington, according\u00a0to a Republican congressman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York Representative Lee Zeldin made the comments to CNN on Friday, after Putin rejected a foreign ministry proposal to retaliate against Obama\u2019s decision to expel Russian diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe Putin is outsmarting President Obama with his response. He&#8217;s been allowed to take the high road, be magnanimous. It&#8217;s unfortunate. Now, we need to move forward,&#8221; Zeldin said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the political standoff between Washington and Kremlin is &#8220;like a complicated inside baseball game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Obama ordered a series of new sanctions against Russia and expelled 35 Russian diplomats over allegations that they interfered in the US 2016 presidential election through cyberattacks. Russia denied the hacking accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/31\/504274\/US-Russia-sanctions-hack-Lee-Zeldin-Barack-Obama-Vladimir-Putin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has &#8220;outsmarted&#8221; his US counterpart, Barack Obama, by refraining from expelling American diplomats in response to a similar move by Washington, according\u00a0to a Republican congressman. New York Representative Lee Zeldin made the comments to CNN on Friday, after Putin rejected a foreign ministry proposal to retaliate against Obama\u2019s decision to expel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}