Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Illinois) said President-elect Trump indicated he intended to jail members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. , suggested it was because the president was “embarrassed.” Panel findings.
Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the committee, told CNN's Caitlan Collins: “As we were investigating this at the request of Congress, we came up with answers that clearly embarrass Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump was embarrassed.” Thursday.
“Well, I'm sorry to embarrass you, Donald, but that's what we're called to do. That's the truth, and the history books will record it as the truth. You want to threaten us with jail for that?'” the vocal Trump critic added.
The Hill has reached out to President Trump's news team for comment.
The commission's final report, released in 2022, includes several legislative recommendations, including barring Trump from holding future office as president under the 14th Amendment. The committee also argued that the former president should not be allowed to hold government jobs because the amendment's insurrection clause prohibits persons “involved in insurrection” from holding such posts. did.
Kinzinger's comments came as President Trump expressed openness to jailing members of the Jan. 6 task force in an interview on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
But some members of the task force have fired back at Trump, saying the crimes surrounding the riot were committed by Trump and his supporters, not by those who investigated the incident afterwards.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), another Republican member of the House committee, called the threat “an attack on the rule of law.”
“Here's the truth: Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power,” Cheney, another outspoken Trump critic, previously provided to The Hill in a statement. I mentioned it in.
