We Did Nothing As January 6 Committee that Violates the Law, Its Members Affirm
Trump threatened to jail lawmakers who investigated violent insurrection
Current and former lawmakers who served on the House select committee that investigated the violent insurrection of January 6, 2021, are remaining defiant in the face of Donald Trump’s threat to jail them.
In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said Sunday that members of the special House committee that investigated the insurrection at the US Capitol building should go to jail.
The committee, made up of Democrats and two Republicans, extensively probed the insurrection — in which violent Trump supporters rioted at the Capitol in an unlawful attempt to keep Trump in power following the 2020 presidential election — and Trump’s own role in the events.
Soon returning to the White House, Trump said members of the select committee should be put behind bars.
“There’s nothing we did as a January 6 select committee that violates the law. Just because you disagree with the work of the committee is no way to threaten those members of the committee with jail,” said Rep Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chaired the select committee before it was disbanded in early 2023.
Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger struck an even more defiant tone in the face of Trump’s threat.
Writing in his Substack newsletter, Kinzinger said, “Bring It On, Donald.”
Debunking Trump’s false claims that the select committee destroyed evidence, Kinzinger posted a link on his social media to a government site where the evidence is archived.
Democrat Adam Schiff, a member of the select committee who was just sworn in as the new senator from California, also denounced Trump’s threat while disagreeing with talk that President Biden should pardon committee members preemptively before Trump takes office next month.
“I don’t think the incoming president should be threatening his political opponents with jail time. That’s not the kind of talk we should hear from a president in a democracy, nor do I think that a pardon is necessary for the members of the January 6th Committee,” Schiff said.
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