Jamie Raskin: Donald Trump should be prosecuted ‘for the scale of the attack on democracy’

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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) explained on Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation why the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol recommended to the Department of Justice that it should indict former President Donald Trump for four crimes against the united state.

The bipartisan panel submitted its findings and recommendations earlier this week ahead of Friday’s release of its final 845-page report on Trump’s multifaceted scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden and stay in power The Committee’s 18-month investigation included interviews with more than a thousand witnesses and Trump Administration officials. It also held a series of hearings to help the public understand what happened during the lead-up, execution, and aftermath of Trump’s failed coup.

CBS moderator Margaret Brennan reminded Raskin of the unprecedented nature of the Committee’s goals.

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“Let’s go back to the work you just finished because you made this historic decision to refer the Justice Department for the potential prosecution of a former president of the United States. It’s never been done before, but in doing so, it’s not done. I have no need for the Justice Department to act,” he said.

“Why do you think making that referral is necessary?” Brennan asked. “Why not just let your work stand in public hearings?”

Raskin explained that “because of the scale of the attack on democracy,” Trump and his enablers must face justice:

You know, we don’t have a formal statutory offense called ‘crimes against democracy.’ But that’s what it all comes together and then there are hundreds of actual violations of the law under this and we’ve identified four.

There has been a deliberate attempt by Donald Trump to interfere and obstruct and obstruct a federal proceeding. That’s the whole ‘Stop the Steal’ plan meaning you go in there and block the House and Senate and the vice president from doing their job. This is an attempt to defraud the United States.

There was a conspiracy to defraud the United States, to trade an honest-to-goodness presidential election for a bogus election complete with fake voters, and forced violence used to subvert the process. This includes the introduction of false statements, these fake voters put in.

And finally, there was aiding and abetting a rebellion, giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists. That’s an old American crime. Our Constitution repeatedly opposes insurrection and condemns it. And of course, we thought we had solved that problem with the Civil War. But that law that we’re referring to there was passed after the Civil War to make sure that people who incite insurrections, and aid and abet and give aid and comfort to insurrections by saying things like of, ‘I love you, you are so special. ,’ those people are guilty of an offense against the United States even if you were president when you did it.

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\u201cRep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House committee Jan. 6, said the panel made the historic decision to refer the charges against the former president to the DOJ because “there was a deliberate attempt by Donald Trump to interfere and obstruct and obstruct a federal that trial.\u201d \u201d

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