{"id":52020,"date":"2022-09-01T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T23:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52020"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:33:10","slug":"jan-6-panel-alleges-gingrich-involvement-with-trump-seeks-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52020","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 panel alleges Gingrich involvement with Trump, seeks interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is asking former House Speaker\u00a0Newt Gingrich\u00a0(R-Ga.) to voluntarily sit with its investigators, claiming he advised the Trump team in the days after the former president\u2019s loss in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have knowledge and information directly related to our investigation. Information obtained by the Select Committee suggests that you provided detailed directives about the television advertisements that perpetuated false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, that you sought ways to expand the reach of this messaging, and that you were likely in direct conversations with President Trump about these efforts,\u201d the committee wrote in its letter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the panel, Gingrich was in touch with Trump advisors and provided line edits to advertisements run by the campaign following Trump\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House committee investigating the Jan.&#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-52020","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\/52020","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=52020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52021,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020\/revisions\/52021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}