{"id":11719,"date":"2022-06-21T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/how-georgia-officials-defended-the-election-from-trump-pressure-jan-6-hearing\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:13:00","slug":"how-georgia-officials-defended-the-election-from-trump-pressure-jan-6-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=11719","title":{"rendered":"How Georgia officials defended the election from Trump pressure | Jan. 6 hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xGmXoPI_mgU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state, testified on June 21 during a public hearing before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. The series of questions focused on efforts by former President Donald Trump and his associates to change the outcome of the 2020 election in Georgia, and the threats to officials and election workers that followed.<\/p>\n<p>After establishing the integrity of the vote that favored Biden as the winner, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., asked the two officials about misinformation spread by Trump and his associates, including a video showing election workers putting ballots away under a table that inspired a conspiracy theory. The footage, which attorney Rudy Giuliani called a \u201csmoking gun,\u201d actually showed \u201cnormal ballot processing,\u201d Sterling said. But combating Trump\u2019s misinformation was like \u201ctrying to empty the ocean with a shovel,\u201d Sterling said, who described having to try to convince family members of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften times I felt our information was getting out, but there was a reticence of people \u2026 to believe it because the president of the United States, who many looked up to and respected, was telling them it was not true, despite the facts,\u201d Sterling said, noting that the facts didn\u2019t matter as much to people who felt in their \u201cheart\u201d that Trump had been cheated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job, from our point of view was to get the facts out, tell the truth, follow the Constitution, follow the law, and defend the institutions, and the institutions held,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nSchiff explained how Trump \u201ccontinued to push the false claim that he won the state of Georgia,\u201d and shared clips of the president asking a Georgia elections investigator for her help in the vote count, as well as one where Trump told Raffensperger that it was \u201cdangerous\u201d for him to say there was nothing wrong with the election results.<\/p>\n<p>Before discussing the threats and harassment that Raffensperger and his family faced from Trump supporters, Schiff asked him if there was any way that he could have lawfully changed the result of the Georgia election by recalculating the vote totals.<br \/>\n\u201cThe numbers are the numbers. The numbers don\u2019t lie. We had many allegations and we investigated every single one,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was the fourth of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee to present its findings to the public. It focused on Trump\u2019s efforts to pressure state legislators and local election officials to change the results of the 2020 presidential election. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a>  <br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a>  <br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Follow us: <br \/>\nTikTok: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews<\/a>  <br \/>\nTwitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a>  <br \/>\nFacebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: <br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state, testified on June 21 during a public hearing before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. 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