{"id":11527,"date":"2023-08-23T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11527"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T16:03:16","slug":"jack-smith-has-made-sure-that-the-system-of-laws-still-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11527","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jack Smith Has Made Sure That the System of Laws Still Holds\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;this indictment is on more serious charges \u2014 an attack on American democracy. Trump\u2019s effort to overturn the 2020 election amounted to a conspiracy to defraud the United States and led directly to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to federal prosecutors. Jan. 6 \u201cwas fueled by lies,\u201d special counsel Jack Smith said in announcing the indictment, \u201clies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation\u2019s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.\u201d That may be harder for at least some voters to dismiss than an episode involving hush money to a porn star or holding on to some government documents.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/08\/02\/trump-indictment-roundup-00109391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/08\/02\/trump-indictment-roundup-00109391<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;this indictment is on more serious charges \u2014 an attack on American democracy. Trump\u2019s effort to overturn the 2020 election amounted to a conspiracy to defraud the United States and led directly to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11527\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,744,280,431,221,372,1853,170,714],"class_list":["post-11527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-indictment","tag-trump","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11528,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions\/11528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}