“He’s a One-Man Crime Wave”: Rep. Jamie Raskin Talks Donald Trump and Previews the Jan. 6 Hearings
Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a key member of the January 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack, gives Inside the Hive an exclusive preview of next week’s prime-time hearing.
After nearly a year of investigating the insurrection, Raskin says the most surprising discovery has been “the role that money played, and the role of a financial motive behind all these events to keep the money pouring in.” The committee, he promises, will also draw direct and indirect lines between “the top of the Republican hierarchy” and the “violent hooligans and street fascists” who overran the Capitol.
But will Donald Trump himself be implicated? Raskin has said the former president will get his “comeuppance,” but whether he’ll face direct criminal justice for his “premeditated” role in an attempted coup remains an open question. Tantalizingly, Raskin deflects on the question of whether former vice president Mike Pence has spoken to the committee or might testify against Trump. “I can’t get into it,” he says.
Plus: Raskin offers a powerful message and emotional plea to Democrats demoralized by the political landscape facing the party going into the midterms.
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