'Ridiculous and false': Cheney, Schiff push back after Trump says Jan. 6 committee members should be jailed

[Coventina]

President-elect Donald Trump, in his first broadcast news interview since the election, said members of the House committee that investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, should be jailed.

"For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail," Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press."

Trump specifically singled out Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democrat who chaired the committee, as well as former Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair who was ostracized from her party over breaking with Trump and ousted by a Trump-backed GOP challenger. Among other things, he's accused them of deleting evidence, which the committee has vigorously denied.

Cheney hit back in a statement on Sunday: "Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power."

"This was the worst breach of our Constitution by any president in our nation's history," Cheney said. "Donald Trump's suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ridiculous-false-cheney-schiff-push-back-after-trump/story?id=116597841

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Fuck the fascists!!

[Turbineguy]

1. Trump is going to have to pass a new law

that makes it illegal to say things about him that are not nice.

Only after that law exists can he prosecute people.

Until that time he can go fuck himself.

[Gaugamela]

2. I'm no lawyer, but I would think the speech and debate clause would prohibit

any such attempt. Even the current SCOTUS has to maintain some pretense of constitutional authority.

[NutmegYankee]

3. Legislative immunity prohibits any action on this. Literally unconstitutional

If the administration were to go after the Jan 6 commission for doing their work, it's basically a Civil War scenario. Otherwise every Democrat is just waiting for their cattle train car or concentration camp berth to open up.