GOP members on the Hill said Trump’s comments were hyperbole, an expression of his mood or simply an opinion.
Members insisted Trump’s comments were simply an exaggeration. Alex Brandon/AP
Donald Trump has called for the arrest and imprisonment of his political opponents so many times that the most recent example — his argument last weekend that the members of a House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should be in jail — is hardly even registering.
“I’m sure it was hyperbole,” Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi told NOTUS on Tuesday.
“President Trump sometimes speaks with some hyperbole,” Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin agreed.
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