Biff_Poindexter
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Outrage as Newt Gingrich says Capitol attack investigators could be jailed
Liz Cheney among those to condemn remarks by former House speaker as committee member Zoe Lofgren says: ‘I think Newt has really lost it’
www.theguardian.com
"Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, stoked outrage on Sunday by predicting members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack will be imprisoned if Republicans retake the chamber this year. He made his prediction on Fox News, for which he is a contributor.
Cheney, a leading member of the commission, later blasted Gingrich over the remarks. "A former Speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent January 6 attack on our Capitol and our Constitution," Cheney said in a tweet on Sunday. "This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels."
How many years in prison should people like Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson and Zoe Lofgren be sentenced to?? And what should be the charges they are convicted of?? I am thinking maybe treason, which honestly, is punishable by death....so really, Newt could have called for their execution if he wanted -- but being the gentleman elder-statesman that he is; he decided to pull back and be respectful...and only suggest they face jail time.
And honestly, he makes a good point and he is correct on the facts...How soon people forget how utterly disrespectful and nasty the Dems were to the 709 different Benghazi committees; including trying to sentence many on the committee like Trey Gowdy to prison for conducting their investigations....so its only fair that Republicans demand the same...and even if no one threatened to jail Republicans for investigating Benghazi 18,717 different times; you know they probably wanted to...so fair is fair...