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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger gave a succinct response to President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that the Illinois Republican and his colleagues on the January 6 Home panel ought to be jailed.
When requested throughout a wide-ranging Sunday interview on “Meet the Press” what he would do on his first day again within the White Home, Trump mentioned that every Congress member who sat on the bipartisan committee investigating the Capitol assault “should go to jail” for “what they did.” That group consists of solely two Republicans, Kinzinger and former Rep. Liz Cheney.
The retired Illinois congressman wrote on his Substack: “Bring it on.”
Trump’s newest menace “is nothing more than the desperate howl of a man who knows history will regard him with shame,” Kinzinger wrote Sunday. “Let me be clear: we did nothing wrong. The January 6 Committee’s work was driven by facts, the Constitution, and the pursuit of accountability — principles that seem foreign to Trump.”
“If Donald wants to pursue this vindictive fantasy, I say bring it on. I’m not intimidated by a man whose actions on January 6th showed a cowardly disregard for democracy and the rule of law,” the retired congressman continued.
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Former Consultant from Illinois Adam Kinzinger speaks on the ultimate evening of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Middle in Chicago, Illinois in August 2024. He gave a succinct response to Trump’s menace of jailing him and his colleagues on the January 6 Home panel (EPA)
In its closing 2022 report, the Home choose committee mentioned Trump was the “central cause” of the Capitol riot. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” the panel wrote.
Kinzinger dared Trump to “try to rewrite history” earlier than pointing to the proof that the panel unveiled. “Our hearings laid bare the reality: this was no spontaneous protest. It was an assault on the foundations of our democracy, encouraged and abetted by the former president himself,” he wrote.
“I’m confident that the name ‘Trump’ will be a stain on our history, and my son will be proud of what I did,” he added. “So, bring it on. We aren’t afraid of the truth, but I suspect you are.”
The January 6 committee is hardly the primary group that the president-elect has threatened to throw behind bars.
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Throughout an interview on ‘Meet the Press,’ Donald Trump threatened to throw ‘everybody’ on the January 6 committee behind bars for ‘what they did’ (NBC Information)
Trump beforehand promoted a Reality Social submit that recommended “televised military tribunals” for Cheney and claimed she was “guilty of treason.”
In response to his most up-to-date menace, Cheney informed The New York Occasions in an announcement that 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.”
He has additionally threatened to jail journalists who refuse to establish their sources. “If the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s ‘bye-bye,’ the reporter goes to jail,” Trump mentioned in 2022 after the Supreme Courtroom’s draft of the Dobbs opinion was leaked.
The president-elect has additionally threatened to prosecute President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and distinguished attorneys who’ve been pursuing circumstances towards him, together with particular counsel Jack Smith and New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James.
