{"id":9831,"date":"2023-01-24T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:42:20","slug":"what-we-learned-from-the-january-6-committee-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9831","title":{"rendered":"What we learned from the January 6 committee report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The committee laid out just how much effort Trump and his allies put into schemes to convince state and local officials to overturn the election. According to the report, \u201cbetween the November election and the January 6th insurrection, President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tally does not count other efforts by Trump campaign staffers to contact state legislators, which included efforts to contact 190 Republican elected officials just in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan. The Trump campaign also put on a full-scale whip operation to organize its efforts to select fake electors and ensure they convened on December 14, when the Electoral College met, so they would have an alternate avenue to challenge the election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a sense of how invested the former president personally was in his efforts, Trump tried to speak with Brad Raffensperger \u201cat least 18 times\u201d before that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote\/2021\/01\/03\/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infamous January 2 phone call<\/a>&nbsp;where he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/4\/22211984\/trump-raffensperger-georgia-hawley-cruz-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked the Georgia secretary<\/a>&nbsp;of state \u201cto find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/12\/23\/23522835\/january-6-committee-report-takeaways\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/12\/23\/23522835\/january-6-committee-report-takeaways<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The committee laid out just how much effort Trump and his allies put into schemes to convince state and local officials to overturn the election. According to the report, \u201cbetween the November election and the January 6th insurrection, President Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure, or condemnation.\u201d<br \/>\nThis tally does not count other efforts by Trump campaign staffers to contact state legislators, which included efforts to contact 190 Republican elected officials just in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan. The Trump campaign also put on a full-scale whip operation to organize its efforts to select fake electors and ensure they convened on December 14, when the Electoral College met, so they would have an alternate avenue to challenge the election results.<\/p>\n<p>For a sense of how invested the former president personally was in his efforts, Trump tried to speak with Brad Raffensperger \u201cat least 18 times\u201d before that infamous January 2 phone call where he asked the Georgia secretary of state \u201cto find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.\u201d&#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":[336,1143,1138,1135,1134],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-insurrection","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","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=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9832,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}