Trump Calls for Arrest of Jan 6th Commission Members
The unimaginable has taken shape.
There is a good chance that in 2025, one or more of these people will go to jail. Criminals should go to jail, right? I mean, our legal system worked tirelessly to bring to justice the January 6th insurrectionists — some prefer to call them rioters, tourists, patriots — with one significant omission. The instigator of the whole sick affair, the current president-elect, somehow got off, almost as if he were napping during the whole sordid affair.
We know the history of that day, so let’s not rehash it. The faces above represent the core team that led the investigation into that dark, sad day in our nation’s history. These people, in old America, are heroes. They did what the Justice Department under the missing-in-action Attorney General Merrick Garland struggled to do. They shined a bright light on the treason and cowardice of Donald Trump and the thousands of traitors who did what no one had ever tried to do in our nation’s previous 244 years. They tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
President-elect Donald Trump, in his first post-election TV interview, promised a confrontational return to the White House, saying he would like to see many of those who investigated him jailed, including lawmakers who led an inquiry into his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol (Members Should Be Jailed).
Let’s ask the obvious question that all of us are probably whispering to ourselves at this moment: What would the reason be that these people should be jailed? What did they do that broke the law?
The mere fact that this mafia boss wannabe is suggesting that these good Americans be jailed for upholding the law speaks more eloquently to what we can expect from Trump and his administration over the next four years. Trump is no longer campaigning, although he still has no idea that governing differs from constantly putting out controversial social media posts. In his first interview since being elected, Trump could have said many different things about how he is above the fray. “See, I am the GOAT,” he could have pretended. Trump, however, despite his unbelievable return to the presidency, is instead obsessed with avenging anyone who dared show him to be precisely what he is: a traitor and a coward.
While it is exceedingly abnormal for the leader of a democracy to express a desire to see political opponents jailed, Trump has long called for the prosecution and imprisonment of those he believes unfairly launched investigations into actions he took during his first administration.
In a 45-minute interview with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday and was recorded on Friday, Trump said members of the now-defunct House select committee tasked with investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol should be in jail (Members Should Be Jailed).
Calling for political opponents to be jailed is something that Vladimir Putin does. It was a tactic Adolf Hitler employed to great success. Stalin used it to imprison millions. As someone who has spent most of his adult life living in an authoritarian society, I can tell that the fear of imprisonment eventually wears off. Sooner or later, it becomes a call to action. When that happens, the cowards in power fall into depression. They see that people are no longer afraid of them, so they devise a better, more effective punishment.
The new punishment is death.
Cowardly Trumpists who read my stuff — you know who you are — will mock me for taking us from Trump’s wish to see the January 6th members jailed to death camps, but history is on my side, not theirs. Apologists for Trump or clueless liberals who still think this is all somehow normal — many of the ones who didn’t vote for Kamala because they were “supporting Palestine” — will also think I am overreacting. I hope that I am.
Time will tell, but from what we are hearing so early after the election, I would not say things look very bright or nice for our crashing house of cards.