Sanders tells Biden to consider preemptive pardons since Trump sounds like a 'tinpot dictator'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) urged President Biden to pardon lawmakers who investigated President-elect Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection.

“You know, when Trump talks about sending to jail people who were on that January 6th committee, that sounds like being a tinpot dictator,” Sanders said during a Sunday morning appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press."

“So I would hope that we have an FBI and a Justice Department that protects the civil liberties of...