Did Rob Reiner say that conservatives should be jailed.?

1. What the reporting actually shows: Reiner as a vocal liberal critic, not an advocate of jailing conservatives

News coverage consistently describes Rob Reiner as an outspoken liberal and critic of President Trump, and it records how political actors reacted after Reiner and his wife were found dead and their son arrested ^{[2] [5] [6]}. Major outlets — Reuters, The Guardian, Washington Post, CNN and others — report on Trump’s post that framed Reiner as having “Trump derangement syndrome” and on the bipartisan backlash to that comment; none of these pieces cite a statement by Reiner calling for conservatives to be jailed ^{[1] [2] [3] [5]}.

2. Where the “jailed conservatives” claim seems to come from — partisan framing and online amplification

Rolling Stone’s reporting on the online fallout notes conservatives scrambling to defend Trump’s mocking post and references posts claiming “Rob Reiner called for Trump to be jailed over lies,” presented as part of broader online debate; that is a citation of what others said, not of a direct quote from Reiner in the cited excerpt ^[7]. Opinion and partisan sites have amplified narratives on both sides — praise, condemnation, and attempts to connect past comments to present events — but the excerpts provided do not include a primary source where Reiner explicitly called for jailing conservatives ^{[7] [8]}.

3. Independent checks in mainstream outlets: no supporting evidence in reporting

Mainstream outlets covering the deaths and subsequent political reaction — Reuters, The Guardian, Washington Post, CNN, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Axios and PBS — focus on the homicide investigation, the arrest and charges against Nick Reiner, and the political fallout from Trump’s post. Those accounts record Reiner’s activism and criticism of Trump, and they document criticism of Trump’s timing and tone; they do not report Reiner advocating that conservatives be jailed ^{[9] [2] [3] [5] [10] [6] [4] [11]}.

4. Two plausible explanations for the claim’s persistence

First, long‑running partisan disputes can produce selective quoting or decontextualized paraphrases that migrate into social posts; Rolling Stone documents conservatives asserting Reiner had called for Trump to be jailed, but treats that as part of the online defensive narrative rather than as independently verified reporting ^[7]. Second, opinion pieces and partisan blogs may recollect or interpret past Reiner statements about accountability or Trump’s conduct in ways that readers construe as calls for jailing political opponents — the American Thinker piece, for example, argues Reiner’s past rhetoric has been misread, illustrating how partisan venues reframe past remarks ^[8].

5. What we can and cannot say from available sources

We can say with support from the reporting that Reiner was a prominent critic of Trump and that Trump’s post about Reiner’s death drew bipartisan condemnation ^{[2] [1] [3] [11]}. We cannot find, in the provided coverage, a sourced instance of Rob Reiner publicly calling for conservatives to be jailed; available sources do not mention such a statement and instead show others asserting or repeating that claim ^{[7] [8]}. If you have a specific quote, date, or link alleging Reiner said this, provide it and it can be checked against reporting.

6. Why this distinction matters

At a moment of national grief and an active homicide investigation, conflating others’ online assertions with sourced quotes risks inflaming partisan tensions and misrepresenting public figures. Mainstream outlets covered both the tragedy and the political reactions; their reporting shows a pattern of rebuttal to inflammatory tweets and posts ^{[2] [1] [4]}. Consumers should treat social assertions about what Reiner said with caution unless tied to a verifiable primary source quoted by a reliable news outlet.

Limitations: this analysis uses only the search results you provided; I did not search beyond these sources. If there are primary recordings or interviews where Reiner made the contested statement, those are not found in the current reporting (not found in current reporting).