{"id":2026781,"date":"2023-09-09T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T17:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-considering-calling-lawmakers-as-witnesses-during-criminal-trial-for-jan-6-charges-report\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T17:26:23","slug":"trump-considering-calling-lawmakers-as-witnesses-during-criminal-trial-for-jan-6-charges-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-considering-calling-lawmakers-as-witnesses-during-criminal-trial-for-jan-6-charges-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump may call lawmakers as witnesses in Jan. 6 trial: Report."},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftrump-considering-calling-lawmakers-as-witnesses-during-criminal-trial-for-jan-6-charges-report%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=2026781&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>Trump&#8217;s \u200cLegal\u2064 Team\u200b Considers Calling Lawmakers to the Witness\u2064 Stand<\/h2>\n<p>Former\u200d President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results\/\" title=\"9 Key Points from Trump Campaign Press Conference on Challenges to Election Results\">legal team<\/a> is reportedly considering a bold \u2063strategy for his trial \u200cin the 2020 election case\u200b in Washington, D.C. According\u200c to a report from the Daily Mail, Trump&#8217;s lawyers are\u200c looking to call \u200bRepublican members of Congress who\u2062 objected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-real-clear-politics-say-they-never-called-pennsylvania\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Real Clear Politics -- SAY THEY NEVER CALLED PENNSYLVANIA\">electoral votes<\/a> in some states during \u200bthe \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-weighs-in-on-trump-desantis-in-2024-gop-primary\/\" title=\"Brian Kemp comments on Trump and DeSantis in 2024 GOP race.\">special \u200csession<\/a> of Congress on Jan. \u200c6, 2021, to certify the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Key Witnesses: Sens. Josh \u2062Hawley and Ted Cruz<\/h3>\n<p>The report specifically names Sens. Josh Hawley \u200b(R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as potential witnesses. A source revealed that their objections were &#8220;very \u200bimportant&#8221; because a formal objection required a member of the House\u200c and Senate to sign off. By calling these \u2064witnesses, Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-considering-calling-lawmakers-as-witnesses-during-criminal-trial-for-jan-6-charges-report\/\" title=\"Trump may call lawmakers as witnesses in Jan. 6 trial: Report.\">legal team aims<\/a> to demonstrate that his concerns with the 2020 election\u200d were not unique to him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, calling any witnesses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitch-slammed-for-tweeting-womxns-history-month\/\" title=\"Twitch Slammed For Tweeting \u2018Womxn\u2019s History Month\u2019\">including members<\/a>\u2063 of Congress, would require approval from the judge in the case. It \u200cis possible \u2062that this move could face backlash from the prosecution, led by special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was indicted in Washington\u200d in August on various charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn\u200b the \u20622020 election. Last month,\u200b he pleaded not guilty to the four charges levied against him in the federal court in D.C.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Charges Against Trump<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Conspiracy to defraud \u200cthe United States<\/li>\n<li>Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding<\/li>\n<li>Obstruction of and attempt to\u2064 obstruct an\u2063 official\u200d proceeding<\/li>\n<li>Conspiracy\u200b against rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The trial \u2062date\u200d for the case in Washington is \u200dset for March 4, 2024. This\u2062 date falls just one day before Super Tuesday, when various states will hold their GOP presidential primaries. It is later \u200bthan when Smith wanted \u200bthe trial to begin but much earlier \u2062than the Trump team had\u2062 hoped to start it.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to\u200b note that Trump&#8217;s indictment\u200b in Washington,\u2063 D.C., on his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election is one of four indictments he\u200d has faced this year. He was also \u2062indicted\u2064 in Manhattan, a federal court in \u200bFlorida, and in Fulton County, \u200cGeorgia, on \u200bvarious charges.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a><\/strong>  to visit the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s legal team may summon lawmakers as witnesses in his Washington, D.C. trial for the 2020 election case. Trump&#8217;s lawyers are reportedly planning to call Republican members of Congress who contested electoral votes in certain states, as per a report from the Daily Mail on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2026782,"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-2026781","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\/2026781","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=2026781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}