And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will Stop The Steal.
We will not take it anymore, and that's what this is all about. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. So here are some of the things that the former president said in his long speech, at the rally on January 6th, before the attack on the Capitol.ĭONALD TRUMP : We will never give up. And they did so because, as many have subsequently said in court filings, they believed they were called to do so by Donald Trump. The fair count of legal, certified electoral votes submitted by all 50 states. They temporarily stopped a fundamental democratic process. Some assaulted police officers, ransacked and defecated in the halls of Congress. Americans physically attacked their own government. One year ago, when the entire world witnessed a violent attack on Congress, and the fragility and uncertain future of American democracy was revealed. Author of the new memoir " Unthinkable." ( Show Transcript representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district. “The first thing we have to acknowledge is that democracy is in danger,” Raskin says. Jamie Raskin about losing his son, and his refusal to let America lose its democracy. Today, On Point: One year after the attack on the U.S. we'll be in the Capitol," the representative says. The next day, Raskin's family didn’t want him to go to work at the U.S. In the seven days between Decemand January 6, 2021, Congressman Jamie Raskin lost almost everything. 16, in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland by Raskin and Rep. The House Oversight Committee is demanding the Justice Department provide answers about whether Biden administration officials have any plans to procure the drug used in federal executions despite an ongoing moratorium on capital punishment. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 27, 2021. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. Trump a second time for inciting the assault, and within days, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed him to lead the effort.FILE - Rep. He almost immediately began pressing to impeach Mr. Raskin then lived through the mob attack on the Capitol.
Raskin, a Harvard Law graduate, has also released a memoir, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” about 45 days that forever changed his life around the time of the Capitol siege.ĭays before the riot, his son, Tommy, 25 and a student at Harvard Law, died from suicide on New Year’s Eve. He is the chief sponsor of legislation to create a commission that could remove a president from office under the 25th Amendment. history and the nuances of the Constitution. Raskin is known on Capitol Hill for his detailed discussions of U.S. They attack the rule of law.”Ī former constitutional law professor at American University and a state senator from Maryland, Mr. They attack the peaceful transfer of power. “We have a former president who now has positioned himself and his supporters outside of the constitutional order. “We are in the thick of a struggle to defend our democratic institutions and our democratic processes and the constitutional order,” he said.
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