The senator spoke to NBC News' "Meet the Press" after President-elect Donald Trump said members of the House Jan. 6 committee "should go to jail."

Summary

Sen. Bernie Sanders urged President Biden to “very seriously” consider pre-emptive pardons for members of the Jan. 6 Committee after Trump threatened to jail them.

Trump has also pledged to pardon convicted Jan. 6 rioters, calling their imprisonment unjust.

Sanders condemned Trump’s remarks as authoritarian, while some Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, disagreed with Trump’s proposal.

Committee members, including Adam Schiff and Bennie Thompson, defended their work, calling Trump’s comments an attack on democracy and the rule of law.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
    3·
    8 hours ago

    What do you mean? Is it going too far to preemptively pardon the Death Corps? They are such nice people! Pardoning just in case, I’ll take no further questions.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I’m not even thinking of that. Death squads tend to wind up dealt with by reconstruction tribunals. I’m more worried about people like Oliver North, Roger Stone, J. Edgar Hoover, and Roy Cohn. As well as the entirety of the Nixon administration and campaigns.