Posted on 04/20/2025 2:05:34 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Jamie Raskin threatened foreign leaders who “facilitated authoritarianism in our country” by currying favor with President Trump on issues like deportation — saying that Democrats will not “look kindly” on his supporters when they “come back to power.”
Referencing El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele specifically, Raskin (D-Md.), 62, suggested that Dems should keep score of foreign leaders who brownnose Trump, 78, during his second term.
“Implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power — and we will — we are not going to look kindly upon people who … facilitated authoritarianism in our country,” Raskin told “Pod Save America” host Tommy Vietor in an episode that dropped Saturday.
Vietor had told Raskin that a Latin American policy expert suggested to him that Democrats should “threaten to take action against any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”
Trump has tapped into warpowers under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rapidly deport alleged gangbangers outside of traditional deportation channels to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) megaprison.
So far, those deportations have pertained to illegal immigrants, but Trump has publicly mused about exploring the legality of shipping extremely violent criminals who are US citizens to foreign countries.
Raskin praised the concept of putting foreign countries on notice and called for cutting off foreign aid to El Salvador in response to its cooperation with the Trump administration’s deportations of alleged gangbangers via warpowers.
“The whole idea that Bukele doesn’t have any power to return an American prisoner who was sent to him under an agreement where he’s getting paid $6 million by America is ridiculous,” Raskin contended. “He’s our legal agent in this dubious arrangement they created. Of course, he’s got the power to return them.”
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Raskin is honest with his intentions.
If there is any justice in this world Ratskin will be doing hard time long before then.
What was the ranking Jamie Ratskin high on this time?
What a treasonous, back-Stabbing threatening thing to say!
Isn’t this a kind of treason?
Imagine the reaction if Trump were to say the exact same thing..but here you have commie Raskin who if ANYONE deserves to rot in hell its him, making threats he cant cash
Now, THAT, should be a violation of the Logan act.
yeah but when commies make threats like that its fine
The idea is they dun’t come ‘back to power’.
Btw; this is a threat by Raskin.
Logan Act??
Wow.
Our side did not stoop to that jackassery, thank goodness. Trump at least tries to communicate and work with BideBama’s buddies like Iran, China, Ukraine…
Then other countries should charge him with sedition.
“Politics ends at the water’s edge.” Another quaint tradition the rats throw overboard when it’s not convenient
Hasn’t he been pardoned by Biden?
How is this not a violation of that one law, that unauthorized civilians are not supposed to be involved in negotiations with foreign countries?
“‘When we come back to power”
You’re NEVER coming back to power. You FOOLS/IDIOTS/MORONS keep on doing/saying/supporting what lost you the last election in a landslide!
Hmmm, if I were such a foreign country I wouldn’t risk it. I would send my intel agencies to neutralize the Raskin problem. Threatening foreign countries is not a good idea.
Raskin is way over the top. You don’t threaten countries that are friendly to the United States. This is direct interference in U.S. foreign policy.
Wow this little prick is threatening other countries for supporting ours. Is this not treason?
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