{"id":49642,"date":"2022-06-21T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49642"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:51:08","slug":"state-republicans-say-trump-wanted-them-to-break-law-to-keep-him-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49642","title":{"rendered":"State Republicans say Trump wanted them to break law to keep him in power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s campaign to press GOP state officials to overturn the results of the 2020 election violated state laws, defied the Constitution and led directly to violent threats against those figures that continues to this day, a number of those Republicans testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Appearing before the House committee investigating last year\u2019s attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Republican election officials said Trump\u2019s team, led by the president himself, made fantastic allegations of voter fraud \u2014 all of them false \u2014 and asked numerous state figures to break the law to keep\u00a0Trump\u00a0in power despite his clear defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s campaign to press&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49643,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49642\/revisions\/49643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}