Semi-Weekly Discussion Thread - December 9, 2024

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Previous Discussion Thread

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Trump is now promising to pardon all the J6 insurrectionists and to try to imprison the members of congress who were part of the oversight committee.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/08/trump-january-6-biden-jack-smith/

[u/PubliusVA → u/NonComposMentisss]

try to imprison

Paywalled article, but did he actually say anything different from what is reported in this article about his NBC interview?

Members of the House committee that examined the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were “political thugs and, you know, creeps,” committing offenses in going about their work, he said.

“For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said.

Asked if he would direct the Justice Department and FBI to punish them, Trump said, “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” — a reference to tapping more oil supplies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna182858

Trump routinely says things like “they oughta be in jail” without meaning he will actually try to imprison those people. We saw it with Hillary Clinton in his last term.

[u/mdaniel018 → u/PubliusVA]

Well, perhaps we shouldn’t normalize the president of the United States calling for his political opponents to be jailed

[u/redditthrowaway1294 → u/mdaniel018]

Past that point already.

[u/Vanderwoolf → u/redditthrowaway1294]

Forgive me if I'm not remembering them, what investigations into Trump did Biden direct?

[u/redditthrowaway1294 → u/Vanderwoolf]

Look, I get what you mean since he's senile and doesn't seem to have been running his admin but the DOJ is still part of the executive branch technically under his command.

[u/PubliusVA → u/mdaniel018]

Agree! The question remains whether what he actually said is that the oversight committee members deserve to be in jail (which would be bad) or that he would try to imprison them (which would be worse).