🧩 BND Motif Index · M1269
Lock him up
The rival is said to belong in prison, for life if possible, and the wish passes from post to post as a rallying cry rather than a legal argument.
- 16claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 8right shows it came up on
- 11claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (5 left-leaning, 2 center, 8 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- 🐘 Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 2 claims
- 🐘 The Dan Bongino Show 2 claims
- 🐘 The Michael Berry Show 2 claims
- 🐘 Bannon's War Room 1 claim
- 🫏 CNN 5 Things 1 claim
- 🫏 David Pakman Show (podcast) 1 claim
- 🐘 Fox News Rundown 1 claim
- 🐘 Morning Wire 1 claim
- ⚖️ NPR Politics Podcast 1 claim
- 🫏 Pod Save America 1 claim
- 🫏 The Kyle Kulinski Show 1 claim
- 🐘 The Megyn Kelly Show 1 claim
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
➕ 3 more shows
🎙️ 3 more shows
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Congress prepares to vote on impeachment of defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 2026-11-06 to 2026-11-11
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “I think she should be prosecuted criminally for what she did.” “*THEN* impeach him and throw him in prison forever.” “a 34-count convicted felon, rapist, sexual predator, liar, cheat, grifter & pedophile who should be in jail” “Cannot wait for him to spend the rest of his life in prison.” “Donald Trump is now calling for a Democratic Senate candidate to be prosecuted and presumably arrested” “Elon also needs to be jailed for what he did with DOGE, USAID and Ukraine.” “Every last one of these pieces of compromised garbage should rot in a shitty prison cell.” “He belongs in jail and on trial for war crimes” “He knows he belongs in prison and is doing everything he can to stay out!” “He needs to be arrested, put on trial, convicted and jailed.” “He needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.” “He should be branded a criminal. Lock him up.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-29 “Donald Trump wants Mary Peltola to be prosecuted and arrested over election controversies in Alaska.” 3
Told on the right 2
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-06 “Democrats are accused of wanting to jail Elon Musk.” 3
- 2026-10-30 “Angie Nixon wants to lock up Ashley Moody for undefined crimes.” 2
Told on both sides 2
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-10-30 “Mary Peltola should be criminally prosecuted for her team's efforts to influence the Alaska election.” 2
- 2026-10-29 “Mary Peltola should be prosecuted criminally for her role in the decoy candidate scheme.” 8
Retold online 11
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-09 “Donald Trump should be impeached, removed from office, and prevented from holding future office.”
- 2026-11-09 “Bibi should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
- 2026-11-08 “He should be arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned for life.”
- 2026-11-08 “Donald Trump, called a treasonous child rapist, should be impeached, removed from office and imprisoned.”
- 2026-11-07 “Miller is said to belong in prison and to be headed for many years, or the rest of his life, behind bars.”
- 2026-11-06 “Donald Trump and his cabinet should be impeached and sent to prison.”
- 2026-11-05 “Donald Trump should be impeached, removed from office, and sent to prison.”
- 2026-10-31 “Elon Musk is a Nazi who should be deported, jailed, and stripped of his government contracts for stealing taxpayer money.”
- 2026-10-30 “Donald Trump is a corrupt, incompetent, and predatory criminal, a felon, rapist and pedophile, who should be jailed.”
- 2026-10-29 “The individual should be extradited, jailed, and have his assets seized.”
- 2026-10-26 “This man deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life.”
M1269 · first seen 2026-10-27 · last 2026-11-10 · what this is · how the index works