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Liz] Cheney was behind it, and so was [Rep.] Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee. For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail,\u201d Trump said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he would direct his incoming FBI director and attorney general to send the former committee members to jail, Trump said \u201cNo, not at all. I think that they&#8217;ll have to look at that, but I&#8217;m going to focus on drill, baby, drill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on BLN Monday, Miller said Trump\u2019s comments were taken out of context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat President Trump said, if you listen to the entire &#8216;Meet the Press&#8217; interview, is he wants everyone who he puts into key positions of leadership &#8230; to apply the law equally to everybody,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cas far as the politics aspect, if you listen to the entire interview with President Trump, he said he&#8217;s going to leave that up to the law enforcement agents in charge, including Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney called Trump\u2019s comments an \u201cassault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/ridiculous-false-cheney-schiff-push-back-after-trump\/story?id=116597841\" target=\"_blank\">statement to<\/a> news outlets Monday. It wasn\u2019t his first threat against the former GOP congressmember who went on to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris \u2014 early last month, Trump suggested he would like to see how Cheney would fare \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/31\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/trump-rips-liz-cheney-00186693\" target=\"_blank\">with a rifle standing there<\/a> with nine barrels shooting at her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who was also a member of the committee, said on BLN Sunday he is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/08\/adam-kinzinger-trump-jail-threats-00193189\" target=\"_blank\">not worried about it at all in the least<\/a>\u201d about the threats, adding it\u2019s \u201cnot a sin\u201d to embarrass Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, on Monday sought to walk back the president-elect\u2019s recent statement that he believes the members of the House\u2019s Jan. 6 committee who investigated him should be jailed. Trump, who has a history of calling for revenge against his political opponents, made the assertion during a wide-ranging interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}