{"id":2378630,"date":"2024-12-10T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schiff-condemns-trumps-jail-time-threat-says-biden-pardon-not-necessary-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:56:05","slug":"schiff-condemns-trumps-jail-time-threat-says-biden-pardon-not-necessary-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schiff-condemns-trumps-jail-time-threat-says-biden-pardon-not-necessary-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiff condemns Trump\u2019s jail time threat, says Biden pardon not \u2018necessary\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschiff-condemns-trumps-jail-time-threat-says-biden-pardon-not-necessary-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2378630&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200d article discusses Senator Adam\u2062 Schiff&#8217;s response \u2062to former\u200c President Donald Trump&#8217;s threats \u200cof \u2063jail time. Schiff condemns\u200d these threats while asserting that\u200d he\u2063 does not believe preemptive pardons from President Joe Biden are necessary in this \u200ccontext. The commentary highlights the political dynamics surrounding Trump&#8217;s legal challenges and Biden&#8217;s potential actions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">piece\u200c includes digital elements<\/a> \u200bto enhance reader interaction, such as\u2063 mobile menu options and\u2063 a search feature.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Schiff condemns Trump&rsquo;s jail time threat but says Biden preemptive pardons not &lsquo;necessary&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1908025\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3254824\/democrats-adam-schiff-andy-kim-sworn-in-as-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Adam Schiff\">Adam Schiff<\/a> (D-CA) on Tuesday assailed President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s suggestion that he and other former members of the defunct House Jan. 6 committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3253990\/adam-kinzinger-predicts-trump-wont-jail-critics-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Adam Schiff\">be imprisoned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump advocated that those on the former panel who investigated the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot and his role in overturning the 2020 election should &ldquo;go to jail.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-a-rico-case-and-it-involves-potentially-the-incoming-president-of-the-united-states-assuming-hes-installed-tom-fitton-on-hunter-bidens-criminal-c\/\" title=\"\u201cThis Is a RICO Case and It Involves Potentially the Incoming President of the United States, Assuming He\u2019s Installed\u201d \u2013 Tom Fitton on Hunter Biden\u2019s Criminal Case\">incoming president<\/a> should be threatening his political opponents with jail time,&rdquo; Schiff told reporters on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3254824\/democrats-adam-schiff-andy-kim-sworn-in-as-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"first full day as a senator\">first full day as a senator<\/a>. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not the kind of talk we should hear from the president in a democracy, nor do I think that a pardon is necessary for the members of the Jan. 6 committee.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-weighs-preemptive-pardons-for-trump-political-foes-report\/\" title=\"Biden White House weighs preemptive pardons for Trump political foes: Report\">weighing preemptive pardons<\/a> over fears Trump may seek retribution against Schiff and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-poll-spells-bad-news-for-progressives-in-high-profile-ohio-special-election\/\" title=\"New Poll Spells Bad News For Progressives In High-Profile Ohio Special Election\">high-profile members<\/a> of the bipartisan panel, including former Chairman Bennie Thomson (D-MS), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and former Rep. Liz Cheney. Biden is also considering pardons for other political foes who could come under Trump&rsquo;s microscope.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are proud of the work we did in that committee,&rdquo; Schiff continued. &ldquo;It was a fundamental oversight obligation to investigate the first attempt to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power in our history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Then-Rep. Adam Schiff after participating in a U.S. Senate debate with Republican Steve Garvey on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in Glendale, Calif. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump said in an NBC <em>Meet the Press<\/em> interview that aired over the weekend that he would not direct Justice Department officials to bring charges against the committee members but accused them of engaging in unspecified criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate portion, Trump said that &ldquo;retribution will be through success.&rdquo; He&rsquo;s also vowed to pardon those charged with and convicted of crimes related to the Capitol riot. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3191374\/dates-2024-presidential-transition\/\"><strong>KEY DATES FOR THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The apparent threat to jail political opponents left Republicans in the Senate, conservatives and centrists alike, dodging questions Tuesday about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-names-kristi-noem-as-dhs-secretary-nominee-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump names Kristi Noem as DHS secretary nominee - Washington Examiner\">incoming president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If there&rsquo;s something that needs to be looked at there, I&rsquo;m sure the appropriate authorities will look at it,&rdquo; incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune (R-SD) said of jailing Jan. 6 committee members. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t have a comment, really, on those statements.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1908025\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1908025\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schiff criticizes Trump&#8217;s jail threat but calls Biden&#8217;s pardons unnecessary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2378631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/schiff-jail-time-pardon.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[41000,5159,3634],"class_list":["post-2378630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-jail-time","tag-schiff","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/schiff-jail-time-pardon.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378634,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378630\/revisions\/2378634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}