The president wants the Democratic lawmaker imprisoned for setting off the alarm as votes to avoid a shutdown loomed.
at a Congressional office building was worse than the ex-president’s supporters storming the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power. He called for the New York Democrat to be imprisoned.
Trump’s rant comparing Bowman’s actions on Saturday with the mass violence of Jan. 6, 2021, built to an all-caps crescendo on“Will Congressman Jamal [sic] Bowman be prosecuted and imprisoned for very dangerously pulling and setting off the main fire alarm system in order to stop a Congressional vote that was going on in D.C.,” Trump wrote. “His egregious act is covered on tape, a horrible display of nerve and criminality.
“But I want to be very clear, this was not me, in any way, trying to delay any vote,” he continued. “It was the exact opposite ― I was trying urgently to get to a vote, which I ultimately did and joined my colleagues in a bipartisan effort to keep our government open.
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