Bennie Thompson calls out threats of jail against January 6 committee members – Washington Examiner


Bennie Thompson calls out threats of jail against January 6 committee members

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) claimed it was “wrong” of President-elect Donald Trump to suggest members of the January 6 committee deserve jail time.

Trump made “retribution” a key plank of his winning platform a month ago. Now that he’s weeks from returning to the White House, the president-elect’s foes wonder what his promises will look like in action. For example, members of the now-defunct January 6 committee are mixed on their outlooks for the future since Trump suggested the members “should go to jail.”

“First of all, president — former — to-be-President Trump is absolutely wrong. There’s nothing we did as a January 6 Select Committee that violates the law,” Thompson said of Trump’s comments Tuesday. “Just because you disagree with the work of the committee is no way to threaten those members of the committee with jail. So obviously, that’s his opinion.”

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who was on the same committee with Thompson, agreed. According to Kinzinger, “When we talked about him throwing his ketchup and hamburger against the wall, there’s nothing illegal about that.”

“So look, he’s all butthurt right now because he was embarrassed. He’s not gonna come after us, and I’m not worried about it at all,” Kinzinger said in an interview Sunday.

Trump’s comments came during a Meet the Press interview when he was asked if he would pardon himself from his indictments. The president-elect maintained that he “didn’t do anything wrong,” but instead, the January 6 committee members instigated the allegations against him.

“[Liz] Cheney was behind it. And so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee,” Trump said.

Trump was coy himself when he was asked during the same interview about his own possible lawfare campaign against Democrats, who he has said have used the Department of Justice and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into him as a way to punish him. The president-elect put the onus on his attorney general appointee Pam Bondi and FBI director appointee Kash Patel on whether or not to charge Smith.



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