{"id":50298,"date":"2022-07-12T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50298"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:23:09","slug":"doj-alerted-after-trump-called-unseen-jan-6-witness-says-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50298","title":{"rendered":"DOJ alerted after Trump called unseen Jan. 6 witness, says Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump tried to call a witness expected to appear at a future hearing for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Tuesday, raising further questions about potential witness tampering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter our last hearing, President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation. A witness you have not yet seen in these hearings,\u201d Cheney said at the conclusion of Tuesday\u2019s hearing. \u201cThat person declined to answer or respond to President Trump\u2019s call, and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. Their lawyer alerted us, and this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take every effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,\u201d Cheney added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump tried to call&#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-50298","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\/50298","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=50298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50299,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50298\/revisions\/50299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}