Trump will 'most likely' pardon Capitol rioters on Day 1 and says Jan. 6 committee members should be jailed
Source: NBC
President-elect Donald Trump said he is looking to issue pardons to his supporters involved in the attacks on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as soon as his first day in office, saying those incarcerated are living in hell.
Trumps comments, the most sweeping hes made since winning the 2024 election, came during an exclusive interview with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker. He also said that he will not seek to turn the Justice Department on his political foes, and warned that some members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack should go to jail.
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Trump said that he would not direct Pam Bondi, his nominee to be the next attorney general, to investigate special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two separate federal cases against Trump that were ultimately dropped after the election. Trump called Smith deranged and said he thinks he is very corrupt. Ultimately, he said, hed leave those decisions to Bondi, and said he would not direct her to prosecute Smith.
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He singled out Republican Liz Cheney, a vocal Trump critic who left Congress, and Democrat Bennie Thompson, who chaired the committee, saying they had destroyed the evidence collected in their investigation and those people committed a major crime.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-will-likely-pardon-capitol-rioters-day-1-says-jan-6-committee-me-rcna183275
NBC News video:
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-says-everyone-on-the-jan-6-committee-including-liz-cheney-should-go-to-jail-226490437697
paleotn
(19,531 posts)Someone should keep a tally of what he says compared to what actually happens. That's the thing with guys like him. In my experience, they spew a lot, but act on very little. It's "performance art."
Jimvanhise
(376 posts)Trump is lying again but he was already informed all of the evidence has been preserved on line. But Trump needs to make up lies about his perceived enemies so that he can rewrite history to justify his own actions. Where is the deep state when we need them?
Dave Bowman
(3,857 posts)Look who's talking.
bucolic_frolic
(47,573 posts)He's coming close to saying empty the jails altogether.
liberalgunwilltravel
(564 posts)Please make this stop, permanently?
Wavelight
(464 posts)Two failed attempts
PortTack
(34,830 posts)republianmushroom
(18,179 posts)With those insurrectionist. Thank you Merrick the Meek.
46 months and counting.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,956 posts)pfitz59
(10,986 posts)He was disgusting as ever.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,693 posts)"And I am appointing you to the position where you can bring charges against them. And I can fire you any time I like. And I can appoint a successor who could bring charges against you too."
pnwmom
(109,636 posts)Fullduplexxx
(8,364 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,956 posts)Wrong is right, bad is good, war is peace, ugly is beautiful and vice versa, and the mentally unstable least qualified person ever to hold the office of president has his stubby little finger on the nuclear war Red Button.
Time for another run to the liquor store.
Evolve Dammit
(19,056 posts)Boomerproud
(8,474 posts)Back to the Twightlight Zone.
highplainsdem
(52,834 posts)uncledad
(66 posts)If she asked him for evidence he wouldn't come back! He's part of the NBC family!
uncledad
(66 posts)Did Chuck Welker ask him for evidence, me thinks hell no?
sakabatou
(43,251 posts)AntiFascist
(12,976 posts)to prepare for a time when and if he goes completely anti-Constitutional. Turning against his high-level political enemies may only be the beginning. Keep in mind what happened to Assad, Yoon....Ceaușescus.