Former President Donald Trump is calling for the members of the now-disbanded House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to be indicted. 

The comment comes in the same week that Trump said it’s “very possible” that criminal prosecutions are “going to have to happen” to his political enemies under the next president and that he would have “every right to go after them” if he returns to the White House.

Trump’s remarks about the Jan. 6 committee were in response to a judge on Thursday ordering former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the panel.

“It is a Total and Complete American Tragedy that the Crooked Joe Biden Department of Injustice is so desperate to jail Steve Bannon, and every other Republican, for that matter, for not SUBMITTING to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Thursday.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, claimed “it has been irrefutably proven that it was the Unselects who committed actual crimes when they deleted and destroyed all material evidence.” The former president added, “I DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG.”

In March, a Republican-led House committee released a report that said the Jan. 6 panel withheld witness transcripts from the public that contradicted some of its most explosive claims, including that Trump became irate when an SUV driver refused to drive him to the Capitol following his speech at the Ellipse.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chaired the Jan. 6 committee, called the report “dishonest” and “deceptive.” He said members “took into account the testimony of all witnesses” in reaching its conclusions. Thompson added that some transcripts were withheld because they were required to undergo review from the executive branch to protect sensitive information and the privacy of witnesses. 

Even before the GOP-led report, Trump alleged, without evidence, that former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the committee’s vice chair, deleted and destroyed evidence that could help his defense in his federal election interference case in Washington. Cheney has denied the allegation and says Trump’s lawyers have had the Jan. 6 committee materials for months. 

“Lying about the evidence in all caps won't change the facts,” Cheney wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in January in response to Trump’s claims. “A public trial will show it all.”

Trump has claimed the missing evidence shows former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down his request for 10,000 National Guard troops to be deploy to Capitol Hill before Jan. 6.

Although Trump made a passing remark about the need for troops in the days leading up to Jan. 6, there is no evidence he signed any order requesting troops. Pelosi does not control National Guard troops and could not have stopped an ordered deployment, experts say. In addition, she shared control of the Capitol at the time with former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican.

Like Cheney, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Thursday night that Trump “has had access to all of this.”

“Facts don't matter to him. I mean, that’s obvious,” Kinzinger told CNN. “He just wants to create this narrative. He complains about the so-called weaponization of the Justice Department and then puts out whatever his fake tweet thing is called that basically is saying, we're going to weaponize the Justice Department. I mean, this is authoritarianism to the 10th degree. He lies to people.”

Another former member of the panel, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., wrote Friday on X: “Seeking to prosecute those who uphold the rule of law is just what a dictator would do. On day one. And every day thereafter.”

The Jan. 6 committee’s public hearings in 2022 presented evidence and testimony painting Trump as a president so determined to remain in power that he ignored his closest advisers in pushing false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election; pressured state officials, senior Justice Department officials and Vice President Mike Pence to help overturn the results; summoned his supporters to Washington on Jan. 6; directed them to the Capitol knowing some were armed; and then refused to call off the violent mob or order the National Guard to step in.

Trump was convicted last week in New York of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments made to an adult film star during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. He has claimed the case and the three other criminal indictments against him are politically motivated.