{"id":133798,"date":"2024-08-12T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133798"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:42:32","slug":"gop-nominee-to-run-north-carolina-schools-advocated-pro-trump-military-coup-in-january-6-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133798","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;GOP nominee to run North Carolina schools advocated pro-Trump military coup in January 6 video&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/09\/politics\/kfile-michele-morrow-january-6-comments\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to run K-12 public education in North Carolina, filmed a video after attending the January 6 riot at the US Capitol urging then-President Donald Trump to put \u201cthe Constitution to the side\u201d and use the military to stay in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a deleted Facebook livestream she filmed from her hotel room, Morrow called for mass arrests of anyone who helped certify the 2020 election. \u201cAnd if the police won\u2019t do it and the Department of Justice won\u2019t do it, then he will have to enact the Insurrection Act,\u201d said Morrow. \u201cIn which case the Insurrection Act completely puts the Constitution to the side and says, now the military rules all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morrow was at the Capitol as the attack occurred, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/q1e0z27xonbg2u30s372m\/Parler-NU3mL7uF5ryx.mp4?rlkey=ef7f522exmrxhyonrmni86dcz&amp;dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public videos<\/a>&nbsp;reviewed by CNN that show her in a restricted area on the northwest side of the Capitol. CNN has seen no evidence that Morrow entered the Capitol building that day or that she engaged in violence, and she was not charged with any crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March\u2019s Republican primary, Morrow defeated the incumbent North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction, a job that manages the state\u2019s $11 billion budget for K-12 public schools and helps set education priorities and implement curriculum standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: &#8220;Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to run K-12 public education in North Carolina, filmed a video after attending the January 6 riot at the US Capitol urging then-President Donald Trump to put \u201cthe Constitution to the side\u201d and use the military to stay in power. In a deleted Facebook livestream she filmed from her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133799,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133798\/revisions\/133799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}