Says Liz Cheney and all January 6 committee members 'should go to jail' in Meet the Press interview

In his first network interview since winning the election, aired December 8, 2024 on NBC's Meet the Press (taped December 6 at Mar-a-Lago), Trump told Kristen Welker that former Rep. Liz Cheney, Rep. Bennie Thompson, and 'everybody on that committee' that investigated January 6 should face imprisonment: 'For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.' He grounded the demand in an unsubstantiated claim that the committee 'deleted and destroyed all the evidence,' which fact-checkers found no support for, while saying he would not personally direct his FBI director or attorney general to prosecute them. In the same interview he reaffirmed plans to pardon January 6 defendants on his first day in office. Cheney and Rep. Adam Schiff called the jail remarks 'ridiculous and false' and characterized them as a preview of politicized law enforcement.

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