President-elect Donald Trump has previously said that Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) should be jailed for his work on the now-defunct committee.

Members of the Jan. 6 select committee are privately discussing presidential pardons with the White House days before the return of Donald Trump, who has publicly threatened vengeance against them and other political enemies.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who headed Congress’s special investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Tuesday that he has been in talks with the White House about presidential pardons.

Several top members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack are reportedly in talks with President Joe Biden about preemptive pardons before he leaves office on January 20. That's according to a Tuesday report from Punchbowl News,