{"id":1631427,"date":"2022-09-02T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631427"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T23:04:30","slug":"jan-6-panel-seeks-interview-with-newt-gingrich-over-alleged-efforts-in-election-fraud-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-panel-seeks-interview-with-newt-gingrich-over-alleged-efforts-in-election-fraud-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6 Panel Seeks Interview With Newt Gingrich Over Alleged Efforts in Election Fraud Claims"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fjan-6-panel-seeks-interview-with-newt-gingrich-over-alleged-efforts-in-election-fraud-claims%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=1631427&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--><p>The Jan. 6 select committee asked former GOP House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-newt-gingrich\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> for a \u201cvoluntary\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-interview\">interview<\/a> on his role in perpetuating the 2020 election fraud claims that had led to the U.S. Capital breach, according to a Thursday letter from the panel.<\/p>\n<p>Written by chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the 3-page letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.january6th.house.gov\/files\/2022-9-1.BGT%20letter%20to%20Gingrich%20Final.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) said the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach has obtained messages between Gingrich and senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The exchanges allegedly unveiled his potential efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election by providing Trump staff \u201cdetailed input into television advertisements\u201d that repeated and relied upon what the committee called \u201cfalse claims\u201d of voter fraud, according to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate. Instead, these efforts attempted to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after voting had already taken place,\u201d the committee argued, noting that the ads ran in the days leading up to the Dec. 14 meeting, where state electors would vote for president and vice president.<\/p>\n<p>In an alleged email Gingrich sent to the Trump team on Dec. 8, 2020, responding to a proposed script for a television advertisement about election fraud, he suggested disclosing \u201cnew verifiable information\u201d to the American public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we inform the American people in a way they find convincing and it arouses their anger[,] they will then bring pressure on legislators and governors,\u201d Gingrich wrote, cited by the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson claimed in the letter that such information suggests the former House speaker \u201csought ways to expand the reach of this messaging\u201d in a bid to arise public sentiment. \u201cWe would like to interview you about these and other communications and speak with you about your efforts to advise President Trump and his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jan. 6 select committee asked former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich for a \u201cvoluntary\u201d interview on his role in perpetuating the 2020 election fraud claims that had led to the U.S. Capital breach, according to a Thursday letter from the panel. Written by chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the 3-page letter (pdf) said the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"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-1631427","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\/1631427","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\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631427\/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=1631427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}