In a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News Channel, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said that Jan. 6 committee members “face a real risk of jail.”
Gingrich's remarks to host Maria Bartiromo, expounded on the ideas laid out in his op-ed for Newsweek. Gingrich's piece, titled “The Wolves Will Become Sheep” argued that the tables will turn on members of the select committee if Republicans regain the majority.
But Gingrich still hasn't mentioned any laws that committee members allegedly broke. Indeed, his op-ed didn't propose prosecuting anyone. All of this has led Gingrich's critics to accuse him of pandering to Trump and being deliberately provocative to stay relevant.
As Mediaite reports:
“You have — both with Attorney General [Merrick] Garland and with this select committee on January 6, people who have run amok,” Gingrich argued. He added, “What they need to understand is on January 4 next year, you're going to have a Republican majority in the House and a Republican majority in the Senate. And all these people who have been so tough, and so mean, and so nasty are going to be delivered subpoenas for every document, every conversation, every tweet, every e-mail.”
A Warning From Republicans?
Gingrich went on to blast Garland and the Jan. 6 committee as a “lynch mob.” He warned that Republicans may look to imprison their political opponents next January — arguing that their inquiry is breaking the law by “running over peoples' civil liberties.”
“I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down,” Gingrich said. “And the wolves are going to find out that they're now sheep and they're the ones who are in fact, I think, face a real risk of jail for the kinds of laws they're breaking.”
Afterward, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) blasted Gingrich.
The Hill reports:
“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.”
Although Cheney's voting record aligned with Trump's 93% of the time, the Wyoming Republican emerged as a fierce critic of the former president and those who excuse his behavior.
Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) are the only Republicans on the committee. While Kinzinger is not seeking reelection, Cheney faces a strong primary challenge from a Trump-backed candidate.
This is the least of our problems going into the midterms. There’s so much to be stopped and so much to be fixed. Right off the bat.
To the contrary, this is a very visible, easily reversed, travesty of justice that could set the tone for the years leading to the removal of Biden. Lots of people like me want answers to who was responsible for all of the unanswered questions about Jan6. There is justice to meet out for the murder of Ashli Babbit. Somebody needs to point out in no uncertain terms to Liz Cheney that if the law is becoming unraveled it is because of the efforts or her and her new commie allies in the congress pulling at the threads and bursting the seams.
I think the Jan. 6 investigating group went a bit over the top. Those who were imprisoned suffered intolerable conditions and
the public has yet to see the whole scenario of that day. I doubt the name they gave to Jan. 6 as an insurrection. That would
have involved everyone with weapons and being more forceful in their actions. It seems to me to be a clash of two different
groups that got intermingled and waylaid in their cause. I just hope this can be laid to rest in the near future.
We the citizens of America have had it with the lieing, dishonest members of the Democratic party & few Repubs. your one notice we’ll do everthing to defeat you come Nov.