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“Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee,”
is responding to Donald Trump's latest midnight threats. Donald Trump was posting all night that Jamie Raskin, the Democratic Congressman, needs to be expelled. Donald Trump was literally seizing with rage and sweating out his fear. He was saying that Jamie Raskin's a loser in life who worked endlessly
during my first term to impeach me, and he goes,
"We need to expel the bum. Congress can ever be great with people like this." And he was reposting Mark Levin, who said the House should trigger the expulsion process against Jamie Raskin. He's leading a plot to impeach the president. If the Democrats take the House, he led the prior to impeachments against the president.
He's pushed for his resignation and the past also was involved in twisting the 14th Amendment to band-candidate Trump from the balance. When, when, when, when. I can invoke Article 1, Section 5, clause 2, and expel Jamie Raskin. I want to bring in Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin to respond to Donald Trump's latest
threats, because it certainly seems that Congress member Raskin's living rent free in Donald Trump's head. I also want to speak to Congress member Raskin about some of his major pieces of legislation
to block Donald Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund, as well as Donald Trump's attempt to
basically give himself a superpartum from all of his past tax evasion and any other conduct relating to taxes or any other misconduct that was one of the things that was put in the settlement that Donald Trump bade with himself. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin, Congress member Raskin. It's great to see it.
And so Donald Trump's been posting a lot about you.
“He's been posting repost a mark live in, talking a lot of stuff about you saying you need to be”
expelled and saying that, you know, they're terrified that when Democrats take over the house, you'll be leading a third impeachment against him. So they got to get rid of you now, and I mean, he's posting it late at night. So you're clearly living rent free in his mind, I guess. Before we get into some of the other pieces of legislation that you're pushing forward,
what's your immediate response to kind of Trump's constant posts about saying you need to be expelled from the house? Well, yeah, I mean, it tells me we had a very fine week in terms of stopping his absurd and lawless $1.776 billion political slush fund, which we've been working on in the judiciary committee, and it tells me we had a great week in terms of exposing their utterly ridiculous and devious attack
on the Southern Poverty Law Center. So his attack on me seemed to be kind of coming out of the blue. We don't quite know exactly what triggered him, but it was a rough week for the president in the judiciary committee, and so I don't know.
Maybe he's got rascan derangement syndrome or something, but the bottom line is we're doing our job.
We're going to get back to work. We're on the front lines of this struggle against corruption and authoritarianism, and we're not going to be deterred by that. This is not middle school where he thinks he can expel someone for questioning his authority. And look, we're in the middle of a war that he started illegally and I'm constitutionally,
and there are a lot of dead Americans and a lot more dead Iranians, and he should really be focused on that. These are very serious times, and so I'm going to try not to take the bait as tempting as it is to go back and forth. I will just say, though, in his attacking me on the impeachment stuff and what he describes as a loser cause, he wasn't pitched by the House of Representatives in right after the insurrection in 2021 in January, 2021 on 13th.
And it was a vote of 232 to 197 and all of the Democrats and 10 Republicans joined us.
So when we went over the Senate to prosecute the case, and I was the lead imp...
he may be recalling now that it was a 57 to 43 vote to convict him. Now, I know he's proud of that because that fell just short of the two thirds requirement, but most presidents of the United States would not be proud of the fact that they have 50% of the presidential impeachment in history, and 57% of the U.S. Senate voted to say that he had incited a violent insurrection against our constitution.
Yeah, it's a good point. I don't think people remember how close he actually was to being convicted as well, and but for some of the people, by the way, who he now is a who we now attacks, I mean, there could have been a conviction there in the Senate. Now talk to us about your legislation that you're pushing forward on the slush fund for the insurrectionist. Because one of the things that I find fascinating is this macro picture that gives you insight
“into I think Donald Trump's entire life as a con artist and a scammer, which is he doesn't want”
to reduce anything to writing even when he's cornered. He always wants to do a trust me bro.
I got this and then he always tries to wiggle out of it and say, because his word is meaningless. I mean, we see it in Iran where it's like, okay, reduce it to writing. Make the deal. Stop saying you have concepts of frameworks, of concepts of frameworks, even Judge Brinkham was speaking to the DOJ lawyer on the slush fund case. And she was saying to the DOJ lawyer, look, okay, I hear you. You're saying to me that you're going to stop this
slush fund. So why aren't you putting it in writing? And the DOJ lawyer goes, I don't know. And Judge Brinkham was like, don't you find it weird that you don't know that? And you, this is a pretty big case. And you're saying you don't know why you don't want to put that in writing. Very suspicious. The day after Todd Blanch appeared in the Republican caucus before an outrage
“scandalized membership. And he promised them it was going nowhere. We're not moving forward. And so”
on the very next day, Donald Trump said, I love the idea. We're going forward. We're going to make this happen. And so on. So you can't trust these people, even when they do commit it to writing. But at least have the decency to commit it to writing. And don't think we're going to fall for all of these verbal disclaimers of interest and proceeding. In any event, we are the article one branch of government in Congress. We appropriate money. It's up to us at this point to both
completely defund their fraudulent settlement and their anti-weaponization fund. But also, to affirmatively declare that no federal taxpayer dollars should go to the purposes of paying the insurrectionist, the proud boys and oathkeepers. For one thing, it's unconstitutional. If you read section four to 14th Amendment, it says that no money may be appropriated for the purposes of paying for insurrection against the union. And of course, that came out of the Civil War
period. So that's an emphatic categorical point. But also, we're saying the president should not
be able to make a deal with himself. This is basically Trump versus Trump and guess who wins
in litigation like that. This is a totally fraudulent, collusive litigation and totally fraudulent collusive settlement, which is why the judge in Florida yanked the whole thing back. They had
“tried to dismiss the case. And she said, no way. I think this is a fraud on the court. And it's”
going to be a fraud in the country. Now we got two different federal courts trying to throw the brakes on it and judge Brinkema. It just said, there shall be no money going out of this fund. And we're going to try to make the same thing happen by passing a robust bipartisan legislation in Congress that we hope lots of Republicans will join us on saying that the president should not be allowed to settle any cases with himself for his family or for his cabinet members or for
his political pointies. If they think they've got a real case that can sustain judicial scrutiny and they want to go to court, fine. Let them go to court. But we cannot allow them to settle their own cases against themselves. And we saw what happened with Michael Flynn. They did that with Michael Flynn. Michael Flynn actually lost his case about selective prosecution or malicious
prosecution. He lost it. And then still they gave him $1.25 million just as a handoff from the
department of justice and the same thing with Carter Page, you got $1.25 million. And Riketariah's that they're saying, I don't need the anti-weaponization fund. I'm going to get my money from the judgment fund. So we need to cut off that spigot immediately in Congress. The fact that he did this superpart and settlement with himself with the IRS waving all past tax liability. To me, that was one of the main things that he was after anyway because, you know,
he's been railing about these audits for a long time. When I worry, is that I know people have talked about the number as $100 million that it potentially is waving in terms of what the IRS was looking at. But as I read that waiver in California, we'd call it a 1542 waiver, any in all
Conduct, you know, that predates it.
been doing with the UAE and the crypto and all of this stuff. Now, where he would normally have to
“pay capital gains or whatever, whatever this, whatever it would be, he's not going to pay those”
because the way I read the language, you could do a look back of all tax liability that predates it and knowing him, why wouldn't he claim all of the billions of dollars that he's made during these first two years in office? He doesn't have to pay taxes on that stuff. And so it's a waiver of that. So to me, the number that he could be waving just to take the best case scenario, capital gains,
cut classification, 20 whatever, 20, 25%. If he made $2 billion, we could be talking about $600
million in taxes that he's not going to pay. Yeah, but he's made $4 billion at least. So it's doubled that amount. I mean, we're talking about billions of dollars in taxes. He's escaping. And by the way, I thank you for reading it because as you saw, it's not just taxes. This nullifies any liability
“for the president and his family and his businesses for any criminal civil or tax violation. Or any”
other administrative law violation. So foreign corrupt practices act, bribery, and bezelment, insider trading, as you say, other violations of the domestic amoluments clause. He's not allowed to take any money from the federal government. By the way, if he took that $1.8 billion slush fund, that's money that's taxable to him. But they're just trying to nullify all of it and wipe the slate clean. And what's interesting about it is that none of that has anything to do with
what is original case was about his original case was trying to sue the federal government because
a private third party government contractor had leaked information about thousands of people's
tax returns, including Trump's. And everybody has lost their case in trying to get paid for that. Now, the guy who did that, he obviously should not have done that Charles Little John, is in jail. He's in federal prison for five years, but there's no private right of action against it. And Todd Blanche, despite the fact that the Department of Justice had been winning on all of those cases, refused to advance a very clear motion to dismiss on that basis. And he
also refused to advance a motion to dismiss on the basis that the statute of limitations had run as all the IRS lawyers were saying. This was many months too late after the expiration statute of limitations. Todd Blanche was not acting as a lawyer as you say for the American
people or for the government he was acting as a lawyer as always for Donald Trump. He just happens
to be getting his salary paid by the U.S. government. Yeah, Trump was the president when the data leak took place too. It would be like the head of Microsoft suing Microsoft for a data leak of Microsoft stuff while you were the CEO and then paying yourself $10 billion and settling it for yourself. And that's I mean, it's the most deranged that before we go to the congressman, I want to talk to you about the national democracy summer program. I know this is a big deal
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