'He must suffer': Trump demands congressman be jailed for pulling fire alarm during shutdown vote
Former President Donald Trump demanded Sunday that a Democratic congressman seen on camera pulling a fire alarm to delay a vote on funding the U.S. be sent to prison.
Trump said Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) should be charged with "obstruction of an official proceeding" – the same charge faced by hundreds of people accused of involvement in the January 6 protest.
And Trump said Bowman's action is worse than the insurrectionists.
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"Will Congressman Jamal 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.," he wrote on Truth Social.
"His egregious act is covered on tape, a horrible display of nerve and criminality. It was a very dangerous “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding,” the same as used against our J-6 prisoners. Actually, his act may have been worse. HE MUST SUFFER THEIR SAME FATE. WHEN WILL HIS TRIAL BEGIN???"
Bowman was seen pulling the alarm at Congress' Cannon House Office Building Saturday.
Later that night, he issued a statement saying he pulled the alarm because he thought it would open a locked door.
He said, "This was not me, in any way, trying to delay any vote."