During an interview Wednesday with late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, President Joe Biden suggested sending Republicans to prison if they don’t “follow the rules” as dictated by Democrats.
Biden first explained that he doesn’t plan to take certain executive actions on gun control, including banning sporting rifles like the AR-15, because he doesn't want to "emulate Trump's abuse of the Constitution" (and not, of course, because he knows he can't take certain actions on guns without the cooperation of Congress, where he doesn't have the votes).
“I don’t want to emulate Trump’s abuse of the Constitution and constitutional authority,” he told Kimmel, apparently forgetting – or ignoring – the 276 executive orders signed by former President Barack Obama and repeated overreach on everything from international treaties to climate change, immigration, and health care.
“Well, guess what,” Biden rambled on. “If we do the same thing they do, our democracy will literally be in jeopardy. Not a joke.”
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Kimmel responded, “I understand that argument, but it’s like you’re playing Monopoly with somebody who won’t pass go or won’t follow any of the rules."
"How do you ever make any progress if they’re not following the rules?” he then asked, never quite clarifying what "rules" the GOP is supposedly ignoring other than simply not voting the way Democrats want them to.
Jimmy Kimmel on Republicans: “It’s like you’re playing Monopoly with somebody who won’t pass ‘Go’ and won’t follow any of the rules ... How do you ever make any progress?”
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) June 9, 2022
President Biden: “We gotta send them to jail.”pic.twitter.com/c1MH1eWtY3
But even without having established exactly how Republicans aren't playing fair, and regardless of Democrat presidents’ history of issuing plenty of executive actions themselves, Biden nonetheless suggested putting Republicans in prison. For what, exactly? Well, he didn’t say – but it sounds like their primary crime is failing to kowtow to the left’s demands.
“You’ve got to send them to jail,” Biden told Kimmel before mumbling incoherently about a “box.”
“Straight to jail?” Kimmel laughed, attempting to play off Biden’s clearly serious suggestion into a joke.