Trump says he’ll jail his opponents. Members of the House Jan. 6 committee are preparing
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump says he’ll jail his opponents. Members of the House Jan. 6 committee are preparing

LA Times  

California Democratic Reps. Pete Aguilar of Redlands, Adam B. Schiff of Burbank and Zoe Lofgren of San Jose, all members of the House Jan. 6 panel, could be among Trump’s targets if he’s reelected. But Rep. Adam B. Schiff, long a burr in Trump’s side, said he’s having “real-time conversations” with his staff about how to make sure he stays safe if Trump follows through on his threats. “We’ve seen this movie before … and how perilous it is to ignore what someone is saying when they say they want to be a dictator.” The bipartisan Jan. 6 select committee, which included Schiff and Lofgren, spent months investigating the attack that left five people dead and more than 150 police officers injured as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. And so the case could have been over by now.” Former Rep. Liz Cheney, who was vice chair of the select committee, called Trump’s legal moves “a delaying tactic.” “It cannot be the case that a president of the United States can attempt to overturn an election and seize power and that our justice system is incapable of holding a trial, of holding him to account, before the next election,” she told a crowd at Iowa’s Drake University last month. And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?” Trump said: “The answer is you have no choice, because they’re doing it to us.” It’s the kind of talk that has Rep. Pete Aguilar, who also served on the earlier Jan. 6 committee, answering “yes” when asked whether he’s preparing for the possibility of Trump following through on threats to punish political rivals.

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