Jamie Raskin Boldly Threatens Trump Family Over Jan 6 Lies

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot, insisted in a recent interview that accountability will be coming for Donald Trump. Raskin’s role on the riot panel allows him to personally participate in bringing this accountability, and in the near future — as Raskin also referenced in the interview — the committee will be hosting anticipated rounds of public hearings to basically lay out the case for the American people. Raskin said that the hearings “could be the most important hearings in American history, certainly up there with the Watergate hearings,” adding: “I hope we will do them during prime time. I hope we will see them every single day, so we can tell a complete story to the American people about how this took place.”

More broadly, Raskin added as follows:

‘Trump will get his comeuppance. I know how maddening and frustrating it is to people. I share that feeling, having been an impeachment manager. I mean, he’s as guilty as sin. He’s a one-man crime wave, and it’s amazing that his dad’s money and this pack of lawyers he travels with have been able to get him off everything up until now. But I’m with Dr. King that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it tends toward justice. It’s going to catch up with Donald Trump too.’

As for the specific forms that Trump’s accountability could take, it’s a broad question. Down south, Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating efforts by Trump and certain allies of his to overturn the last presidential election outcome in Georgia, where Biden won. Willis has insisted that she doesn’t believe that Trump is somehow shielded from prosecution, should she conclude that course of action to be warranted. A special grand jury will soon begin work on matters involved in Willis’s Trump investigation, and she stated that “this is a criminal investigation,” adding: “We’re not here playing a game… I plan to use the power of the law. We are all citizens… Mr. Trump, just as every other American citizen, is entitled to dignity. He’s entitled to be treated fairly. He will be treated fairly in this jurisdiction… But I plan to do my job and my job is to make sure that we get the evidence that gives us the truth. I’m not concerned at all about games to delay this.”

Commitment to finding and relaying the truth surrounding January 6 is strong for all of the committee’s members, including its two Republicans, Reps. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) and Liz Cheney (Wyo.), both of whom were recently censured by the national GOP for their participation on the panel. And in the meantime, the problems that the committee is addressing are continuing. In a statement he released this week, Trump claimed in reference to alleged “spying” on him and his team that in “a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death” — which is utterly insane. A former president of the United States is pushing the concept of executions of his political opponents for supposed crimes that haven’t been proven in a court of law. In other words, the threat of violence from Trump and his supporters has not abated.



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