{"id":8118,"date":"2022-06-15T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2022-06-15T16:12:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:12:02","slug":"4-things-we-learned-from-mondays-january-6-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8118","title":{"rendered":"4 things we learned from Monday\u2019s January 6 hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Barr, along with other administration officials, described playing \u201cwhack-a-mole\u201d with Trump\u2019s false claims of fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time one false claim was dispelled, they said, the former president would bring up another. Aides repeatedly intervened to tell Trump that he had lost the election, and described taking each claim seriously, investigating it until they had the facts and reporting back to Trump. Former acting Attorney General Richard Donoghue described one meeting during which Trump seemed to accept the gathered evidence, but for each conspiracy theory aides were able to explain away, he had another he\u2019d latch onto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barr described one popular conspiracy theory around the 2020 election, that it had been rigged by voting machine malfeasance, as \u201cidiotic.\u201d Other Justice Department officials testified that they repeatedly insisted to Trump that other conspiracy theories around the election were simply \u201cnot true,\u201d including viral claims of ballot box stuffing in Georgia promoted by Giuliani or Trump\u2019s false claims of \u201cbig massive dumps\u201d of illegal votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essentially, the committee suggested, Trump knew or should have known that his lies about the election were, as Barr put it, \u201cbullshit.\u201d But he repeated them anyway, which helped lead to the violence on January 6.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/6\/13\/23166193\/congress-house-committee-trump-capitol-giuliani-january-6-hearing\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/6\/13\/23166193\/congress-house-committee-trump-capitol-giuliani-january-6-hearing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Barr, along with other administration officials, described playing \u201cwhack-a-mole\u201d with Trump\u2019s false claims of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Every time one false claim was dispelled, they said, the former president would bring up another. Aides repeatedly intervened to tell Trump that he had lost the election, and described taking each claim seriously, investigating it until they had the facts and reporting back to Trump. Former acting Attorney General Richard Donoghue described one meeting during which Trump seemed to accept the gathered evidence, but for each conspiracy theory aides were able to explain away, he had another he\u2019d latch onto.<\/p>\n<p>Barr described one popular conspiracy theory around the 2020 election, that it had been rigged by voting machine malfeasance, as \u201cidiotic.\u201d Other Justice Department officials testified that they repeatedly insisted to Trump that other conspiracy theories around the election were simply \u201cnot true,\u201d including viral claims of ballot box stuffing in Georgia promoted by Giuliani or Trump\u2019s false claims of \u201cbig massive dumps\u201d of illegal votes.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the committee suggested, Trump knew or should have known that his lies about the election were, as Barr put it, \u201cbullshit.\u201d But he repeated them anyway, which helped lead to the violence on January 6.&#8221;<\/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":[336,1143,1138,542,221,347,1135,132,1134,170],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-hearings","tag-insurrection","tag-lies","tag-riot","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","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=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}