Trump: Everyone on the January 6 Committee ‘Should Go to Jail’

By Pam Key

President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the members of the January 6 committee should all “go to jail.”

• Partial transcript as follows:

  TRUMP: And Cheney was behind it and so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee —

  KRISTEN WELKER: We’re going to —

  TRUMP: For what they did –

  TRUMP: – honestly, they should go to jail.

  KRISTEN WELKER: So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail?

  PRES.-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: For what they did –

  KRISTEN WELKER: Everyone on the committee you think –

  TRUMP: I think everybody –

  WELKER: – should go to jail?

  TRUMP: – on the — anybody that voted in favor –

  WELKER: Are you going to direct your FBI director –

  TRUMP: No.

  WELKER: – and your attorney general to send them to jail?

  TRUMP: No, not at all. I think that they’ll have to look at that, but I’m not going to — I’m going to focus on drill, baby, drill.