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Raw Story: 'Bring it on': Ex-GOP lawmaker who Trump threatened with jail issues challenge of his own
Raw Story - 'Bring it on': Ex-GOP lawmaker who Trump threatened with jail issues challenge of his own
David McAfee
December 8, 2024 4:40PM ET
Donald Trump said a former Republican lawmaker belongs in jail, but that man isn't backing down against the president-elect's threats.
Trump recently said members of Jan. 6 committee that investigated him during the final days of his first term "should be jailed," according to the Washington Post.
“Everybody on that committee … for what they did, yeah, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said in an interview, according to the Post.
Former Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, a member of that committee, responded on Sunday. In an article entitled "Bring It On, Donald: The January 6 Committee Stands on Truth," Kinzinger argues that the president-elect's "latest threat to 'jail' members of the January 6 Committee is nothing more than the desperate howl of a man who knows history will regard him with shame."
"Let me be clear: we did nothing wrong," he then added. "The January 6 Committee's work was driven by facts, the Constitution, and the pursuit of accountability—principles that seem foreign to Trump."
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David McAfee
December 8, 2024 4:40PM ET
Donald Trump said a former Republican lawmaker belongs in jail, but that man isn't backing down against the president-elect's threats.
Trump recently said members of Jan. 6 committee that investigated him during the final days of his first term "should be jailed," according to the Washington Post.
“Everybody on that committee … for what they did, yeah, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said in an interview, according to the Post.
Former Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, a member of that committee, responded on Sunday. In an article entitled "Bring It On, Donald: The January 6 Committee Stands on Truth," Kinzinger argues that the president-elect's "latest threat to 'jail' members of the January 6 Committee is nothing more than the desperate howl of a man who knows history will regard him with shame."
"Let me be clear: we did nothing wrong," he then added. "The January 6 Committee's work was driven by facts, the Constitution, and the pursuit of accountability—principles that seem foreign to Trump."
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