{"id":1988093,"date":"2023-08-01T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T22:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-house-gop-leaders-defend-former-president-amid-jan-6-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T22:09:52","slug":"donald-trump-indictment-house-gop-leaders-defend-former-president-amid-jan-6-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-house-gop-leaders-defend-former-president-amid-jan-6-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP leaders stand by former President Donald Trump in the face of Jan. 6 charges."},"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\">32<\/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%2Fdonald-trump-indictment-house-gop-leaders-defend-former-president-amid-jan-6-charges%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=1988093&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--><h2>House Republicans Defend Trump Against Capitol Riot \u200cCharges<\/h2>\n<p>Just minutes after\u200b a federal grand jury indicted\u200b Donald Trump on \u2062a slew of charges related to his actions \u200bduring the \u2063Jan. 6 Capitol riot, top House Republicans jumped to the former president&#8217;s defense to decry the allegations \u2064as\u2063 a political distraction ahead \u2063of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-are-starting-to-panic-after-poll-shows-party-losing-influence-over-hispanic-voters\/\" title=\"Democrats Are Starting To Panic After Poll Shows Party Losing Influence Over Hispanic Voters\">crucial election cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Accusations of Political Weaponization<\/h3>\n<p>House \u2063GOP Conference Chairwoman\u2063 Elise \u200bStefanik \u200dreleased a statement shortly after the charges were\u200b unsealed\u2064 on Tuesday evening, accusing the Department of Justice of being weaponized against\u2062 Trump in order to boost \u200cPresident Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump had \u2062every right under\u200d the\u2063 First Amendment to correctly raise concerns about election integrity \u2062in 2020,&#8221; Stefanik said in a\u2063 statement. &#8220;Despite the DOJ\u2019s illegal\u2063 attempt to \u2062interfere in the 2024 election on behalf of Joe Biden, President Trump continues to skyrocket in the \u2063polls and will\u2063 defeat Joe Biden\u200b and be sworn in as President of\u200b the United States in January 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Criticism of Timing and Distraction<\/h3>\n<p>Stefanik criticized the \u200btiming of the\u2062 indictment, which came just one day after\u2064 Congress heard testimony from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-art-buyer-revealed-as-a-major-democrat-donor-and-joe-biden-appointee\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's art buyer is a prominent Democratic donor and an appointee of Joe Biden.\">longtime business associate<\/a> of Hunter Biden, whom lawmakers have been investigating \u200cover \u2062the last\u2063 several months over allegations of international peddling schemes. The Republican leader accused the \u200dDOJ of using the indictment to distract from Devon Archer&#8217;s testimony, which Stefanik says is evidence \u200bof &#8220;one of the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indictment-house-gop-leaders-defend-former-president-amid-jan-6-charges\/\" title=\"House GOP leaders stand by former President Donald Trump in the face of Jan. 6 charges.\">greatest political corruption\u2064 scandals<\/a> in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress heard\u200c testimony from Hunter Biden\u2019s longtime business\u2062 partner that \u2063Joe Biden joined Hunter\u2019s business \u2063calls over 20 times,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This directly\u2062 contradicts Biden\u2019s lie that he never \u200cdiscussed \u2064business with his son. Today\u2019s sham indictment of \u2063Donald Trump is yet another desperate attempt to distract attention away from the mounting evidence of Joe Biden\u2019s direct involvement \u200bin his family&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-biggest-loser-in-the-2024-gop-primary-is-the-corporate-media\/\" title=\"Corporate media is the biggest loser in the 2024 GOP primary.\">illegal influence peddling scheme<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Chiming \u2064In Against Distraction<\/h3>\n<p>Other Republicans were\u2062 quick to chime in, echoing similar sentiments \u2014 \u200carguing the \u2062charges \u2064were merely being used to distract from President Biden&#8217;s own troubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\u2062 no surprise at all that following Devon\u2063 Archer\u2019s damning testimony yesterday, the DOJ drops more charges against President Trump,&#8221; said Rep. Mike \u2064Johnson, vice chairman of the House GOP conference. &#8220;Their efforts at distraction \u2063can never change the real problem: President Biden is in serious trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) was also among the\u200d first \u2064Republicans to react to the news of \u200cindictment,\u2064 claiming Trump\u200b &#8220;did \u2063nothing wrong!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you\u2062 drain The Swamp,\u2062 The Swamp fights back,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump was indicted by a grand jury on four separate federal charges: one count \u2063of conspiracy to defraud \u2064the United States; one count of conspiracy to\u200c obstruct an official proceeding; one count of obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and one count of conspiracy against rights.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has \u2064long maintained innocence in all investigations\u200b related to the \u200cJan. 6 riot, accusing the Biden administration of unfairly targeting him because of\u2064 his frontrunner status in the GOP presidential primary. \u200dThe former \u200bpresident released\u2064 a statement shortly before\u2064 his indictment was unsealed, denouncing the charges\u2062 as &#8220;prosecutorial\u2063 misconduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why\u200c didn&#8217;t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why\u200b did they wait so long?&#8221; he wrote in a Truth Social post. &#8220;Because they wanted to put\u200c it right in the middle of my campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just minutes after Donald Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury for his actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, top House Republicans swiftly defended him, dismissing the charges as a political distraction before a crucial election cycle. Elise Stefanik, House GOP Conference Chairwoman, issued a statement in support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1988094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988093","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}