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Spelling out what “retribution” looked like, the president-elect sounded off to NBC News’ Kristen Welker on where he thought Liz Cheney and her allies should end up.

The countdown to President-elect Donald Trump’s White House return continued and his intention to pardon Jan. 6 political prisoners wasn’t the only way he aimed to set things right. During his interview for “Meet the Press,” the similarly persecuted leader set sights on the heavily produced sham committee as he suggested, “they should go to jail.”

Seeking clarity on the assertion in a rapid back-and-forth that Welker had prefaced by mentioning the former Wyoming congresswoman as well as fellow Jan. 6 committee member, now-California Sen. Elect Adam Schiff (D) and Dr. Anthony Fauci while Trump mentioned the chair of the defunct committee, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson (D), the president-elect said, “And Cheney was behind it, and so was Bennie Thompson, and everybody on that committee — for what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.”

“So, you think Liz Cheney should go to Jail?” countered Welker before adding, “Are you going to direct your FBI director and your attorney general to send them to jail?”

“No, not at all. I think that they’ll have to look at that, but I’m not gonna — I’m gonna focus on drill, baby, drill,” replied Trump

While it remained to be seen what actions the president-elect’s nominees for FBI Director, Kash Patel, and attorney general, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, would do if successfully appointed to their respective positions, resurfaced video from Aug. 2023 had included Bondi insisting “the prosecutors will be prosecuted.”

“When Republicans take back the White House — and we will be back in there in 18 months or less — you know what’s gonna happen? The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones,” she’d said during a Fox News appearance. “The investigators will be investigated, because the deep state, last term for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows. But now they have a spotlight on them, and they can all be investigated and the house needs to be cleaned out, because now we know who most of them are, there’s a record of it and we can clean house next term. And that’s what has to happen.”

Elsewhere during the interview, Trump had addressed how his personal focus would remain on restoring American greatness as he told Welker, “I’m not looking to go back into the past.”

“I’m looking to make our country successful. Retribution will be through success,” he went on. “If we can make…this country successful, that would be my greatest — that would be such a great achievement — bring it back. We have a country now that’s overridden with crime, that has millions of people that shouldn’t be here that should be in prisons in other countries — that should be in mental institutions, we have drug lords being dropped into our country and told never go back to their country.”

“I’m looking to make our country great. I’m looking to…bring prices down because, you know, I won on two things: the border…and I won on groceries,” reminded the president-elect.

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