{"id":1197529,"date":"2022-01-07T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197529"},"modified":"2022-01-07T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:50:07","slug":"franklin-graham-january-6-capitol-riots-fault-of-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/franklin-graham-january-6-capitol-riots-fault-of-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Graham: January 6 Capitol Riots Fault of \u2018the Swamp\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffranklin-graham-january-6-capitol-riots-fault-of-the-swamp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197529&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/franklin-graham-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Celebrated evangelical preacher Franklin Graham has blamed \u201cthe swamp\u201d for the 2021 Capitol riots, noting that the vast majority of protesters were \u201cpatriots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks one year since the attack on our nation\u2019s Capitol,\u201d Rev. Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/franklin_graham\/status\/1479086148014288897?s=27\">wrote<\/a> Thursday on Twitter. \u201cMany people may disagree with me, but I blame the swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf the \u2018January 6 Committee\u2019 wants to find the truth about who was behind the attack, they don\u2019t have to look any further than Washington and its corruption,\u201d Graham added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a separate tweet, Graham observed that only a tiny percentage of those who protested in Washington that day went on to storm the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of the million or so people who went to Washington that day were patriots who love this country and were there to take a stand for our nation,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Franklin_Graham\/status\/1479086148920422408\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cBut those who stormed the Capitol were wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Graham went on to urge his fellow Americans to pray for the country, while insisting that politicians are not saviors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to pray. This great country is being lost, collapsing from within,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Franklin_Graham\/status\/1479086150635642881\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cAs we begin 2022, join me in praying for our nation and its leaders. We won\u2019t find our hope in politicians. The only true hope is in Almighty God and His Son, Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we will repent and turn from our sins as a people, He will forgive and bring the healing that only He can,\u201d Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Franklin_Graham\/status\/1479086151768150022\">concluded<\/a>. \u201cBut it begins with each individual heart, and that includes you. Have you asked Jesus Christ to forgive you, heal your heart, and be the Lord of your life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated evangelical preacher Franklin Graham has blamed \u201cthe swamp\u201d for the 2021 Capitol riots, noting that the vast majority of protesters were \u201cpatriots.\u201d \u201cToday marks one year since the attack &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}