WATCH: Trump Says Jan 6 Committee Members ‘Should Go To Jail’

President-elect Donald Trump stated that every member of the House January 6 Committee — which defied decades of House precedent when it was structured by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — should be prosecuted during an interview with Meet The Press on Sunday.

The president-elect told host Kristen Welker that he plans to make good on his promise to pardon January 6 protesters on his first day in office. “I want to look at everything. We’re going to look at individual cases, but I’m going to be acting very quickly,” Trump said, adding that the process will begin as soon as he is inaugurated on January 20.

“Yeah, I’m looking for these pardons. These people have been there. How long is it? Three or four years? You know, by the way, they’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”

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Since January 2021, the Biden-led Department of Justice has engaged in sweeping, one-sided prosecutions of January 6 protesters. Despite video evidence that the unrest was triggered when police fired tear gas and flash bangs into what had been a peaceful crowd, in addition to an admission from Pelosi that she refused to activate the national guard and the presence of undercover FBI agents and police officers who were agitating the crowd, the Biden DOJ has arrested and charged more than 1,400 January 6 participants.

The vast majority of those arrested have been charged with misdemeanor trespassing violations. While the Biden DOJ has not pursued participants from the violent Black Lives Matter riots, during which rioters attacked Secret Service agents in an attempt to storm the White House and set fire to a historic church, even though misdemeanor and felony violations from the time period could still be pursued. They have also not pursued charges against pro-Palestine protesters and other left-wing activists who have disrupted congress and occupied official government office buildings.

For the same conduct left-wing protesters are not even fined for, January 6 protesters have been subjected to armed FBI raids where they are frogmarched out of their homes, shackled, and smeared in the press as “insurrectionists” for walking around in a building. Non-violent trespassers have been given federal prison sentences for this supposedly heinous crime, while those who “assaulted officers” have received up to 12 years despite clean criminal records.

Just last week, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced a non-violent January 6 trespasser to one year in federal prison. He also broke with years of precedence and immediately remanded the man to custody so that he could suffer before being pardoned.

This is the ranting of a lunatic.

He must be forced into retirement after Jan 20 or face impeachment proceedings so he can spend his final days on the other side of the podium. pic.twitter.com/1xI3SFBELl

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) December 6, 2024

As for the January 6 Committee, Trump reiterated his calls for committee members to face criminal prosecution. “And Cheney was behind it, and so was Benny Thompson and everybody on that committee. We’re going to… For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said.

“And Cheney was behind it, and so was Benny Thompson and everybody on that committee. We’re going to… For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail?” Welker then followed up. “I think everybody on the committee, anybody that voted in favor,” the president-elect responded.

The committee defied decades of congressional precedent when then House Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) refused to allow then House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to appoint Republican members. Congressional committees, with the exception of the January 6 committee, always allow the opposition party to select its own members.

Instead, Pelosi appointed Liz Cheney, an anti-Trump carpet bagger who lost by a historic margin in her 2022 primary race against current U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who resigned from Congress before suffering certain defeat, as the “Republican” members. This turned the “committee” into a one-sided star chamber that presented cherry-picked videos and witness statements as “evidence” that Trump “incited an insurrection,” ignoring the fact that Trump explicitly told supporters to remain peaceful.

The committee then hired a Hollywood producer to touch up cherrypicked footage used by the committee to advance the false “insurrection” narrative during primetime hearings. The panel also heard unverified testimony from a number of anti-Trump partisans, including former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who told a bizarre story about Trump grabbing the steering wheel from Secret Service agents when the January 6 protests were unfolding. Her claims have been disputed by Secret Service personnel and House Republicans are investigating her for perjury.

In addition, U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) has confirmed that all deposition tapes from committee interviews have been destroyed.

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