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Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Source” that several Republicans were “embarrassed and humiliated” by how weak the case against President Joe Biden is in the impeachment inquiry hearing earlier that day. Raskin said, “It demonstrated to the whole country that there really is no evidence at all supporting the idea of impeaching President Biden.” He continued, “We saw a meltdown on the Republican side of the aisle, where the Republican members were fleeing the committee room in droves, embarrassed and humiliated by what was going on.” Raskin added, “I don’t see them moving forward right now...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he believes Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will “end their political careers by shutting down the government for no reason.” Raskin said, “Donald Trump is calling the shots across the board. He thinks he can shut down his indictments and the work of the special counsel and the Department of Justice and the federal courts by getting Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and three other members of the MAGA caucus to derail the House and shut down the government of the United States.”

Ron DeSantis is attending a Texas fundraiser hosted by Lamar Smith, a former Texas Congressman who is now a registered foreign agent and a donor to Democrat politician Jamie Raskin, who led impeachment efforts against Donald Trump over January 6th.Smith is advertised by Team DeSantis as one of the hosts of the Friday fundraiser in San Antonio. The Florida Governor is currently polling at 10 percent to Trump’s 61 percent in Texas, and Smith seems unlikely to help burnish the Floridian’s America First credentials, being a registered foreign agent.Despite his background as a GOP legislator, Smith is also a donor...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) refused Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” to say Vice President Kamala Harris was the best running mate for President Joe Biden in 2024. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Do you think Kamala Harris is the best running mate for President Biden?” Raskin said, “Well, obviously, she gave the right answer, that’s President Biden’s choice, and I think she’s an excellent running mate for President Biden. You know, I don’t know what more needs to be said about that. Obviously, people are still trying to throw presidential politics into turmoil, but President Biden and Vice President Harris are...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that there was “no evidence of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors” by President Joe Biden to justify impeachment. Raskin said, “It’s ridiculous, of course. I mean you’ve got people who voted not to impeach Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against a union either because they don’t think that’s a crime or they don’t think the evidence was there even though the evidence was overwhelming.”

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked panel Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to subpoena Jared Kushner to produce documents about money his investment firm has received from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies. In a Thursday letter to Comer on Thursday, Raskin referenced Comer’s recent public comments expressing skepticism about the post-Trump administration activities of Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law who was a top White House aide. Raskin asked him to join the Democrats’ probe into Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners. Formed in 2021, it reportedly raised $2 billion from an investment fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Donald Trump was disqualified from holding office because a majority of senators voted to convict the former president on an impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Raskin said, “We’ve been saying all along that section 3 of the 14th Amendment presents a clear and unequivocal statement that anyone who has sworn an oath of office, and not just a president but members of Congress and others who hold federal office, who engage in insurrection or rebellion, having sworn an oath to uphold...

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee dismissed Chairman James Comer’s Wednesday morning release of bank records that appear to show Hunter Biden was paid millions by Eastern European oligarchs. The 19-page memo, which provides screenshots of redacted financial records, says millions of dollars in payments came from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina and Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev. The records also suggest Joe Biden attended dinners with Baturina, Rakishev and a representative from Burisma while he was vice president.

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that “Hunter Biden was obviously trying to divert the different kinds of money” into bank accounts in the names of his family, but none of that involves President Joe Biden and the President has “never been accused, meaningfully, of any corruption in his life. I don’t think it has started now.” After host Chris Cuomo referenced payments to members of the Biden family, Raskin responded, “As far as I know, Hunter Biden made a bunch of business deals, which is lawful, which a lot of family members have done,...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press” that the argument that former President Donald Trump did not break laws and was only expressing his First Amendment rights in the days after the 2020 election is a “deranged argument.” Discussing the January 6 indictment, Raskin said, “A technical violation of the Constitution is a violation of the Constitution. The Constitution in six different places opposes insurrection and makes that a grievous constitutional event. Our constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections and trying to overthrow the government, but in any event, there’s a...

Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and House Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), two key perpetrators of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, had another conspiracy theory to peddle on Psaki’s CNN show on Sunday. On MSNBC, the interlocutors bantered about the baseless speculation that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) was an asset of foreign agents, due to his investigations into alleged Biden family corruption. “I want to ask about the work of the Oversight Committee, because you and Congressman Dan Goldman sent a letter to Oversight Chair James Comer this week requesting that he hand over any information he’s...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is an attempt to protect himself from legal consequences of his “criminal actions.” Raskin said, “Jim Jordan and James Comer, and the MAGA forces running the House of Representatives, would much prefer to arraign the entire law enforcement agencies of America, at the FBI, and others on charges that they are part of a vast conspiracy to get Donald Trump, then to accept the possibility that Donald Trump actually swiped hundreds of confidential and top secret government documents, and then hid...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on “CNN This Morning” that the Republican investigations in President Joe Biden have gotten to “Alice in Wonderland territory.” Raskin was discussing House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and his colleagues investigating allegations by Gal Luft, who was indicted last year. Raskin said, “They are out there playing spy-versus-spy with these people who are basically using the Oversight Committee of the United States House of Representatives as a dupe. This guy is in hiding. He is a fugitive and he is using his ability to wow the members of the majority of the...

The Daily Signal has been able to get 217 pages from the National Security Administration (NSA) under FOIA. Those pages show the huge effort to “torpedo” the Trump administration before they even took office with an effort to go after Gen. Michael Flynn, the man who would be National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump.Flynn’s conversation with the Russian ambassador in the period between November 2016 and Jan. 2017 was intercepted by intelligence officials for the Obama administration, and then his name was unmasked.The Signal requested the information in March 2021 and didn’t get the documents until June 30, 2023.Some...

With Rep. Adam Schiff busy running for the Senate, House Democrats needed someone else to play Pinocchio, and the winner is Maryland’s Jamie Raskin. Raskin just got called out for lying about a trusted FBI informant’s allegations that Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe while serving as vice president. The FBI closed the case years ago, he claimed after a confidential briefing by the bureau’s chief. Specifically, Raskin insisted that then-US Attorney General Bill Barr “determined there was no grounds to escalate from an initial assessment to a preliminary investigation” and “called an end” to any probe because there...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has dropped a bombshell regarding Democrat President Joe Biden. Comer appeared on former Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-SC) Fox News show and revealed explosive details from the FBI’s previously concealed documents on Biden. The top Republican told Gowdy that, “according to the FBI,” President Biden is “currently under investigation for bribery.” WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK............ TRANSCRIPT: GOWDY: “Speaking of House Oversight and your colleague Jamie Raskin, he said the matter was investigated and closed. I want you to listen and then I’ll ask you a question on the other side, chairman.” [Clip starts] REP....

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday said he’s “seriously considering” a Senate bid, with plans to make a decision on whether to run for an upper chamber seat by July 4. “I’ve not decided. I love the House of Representatives. I love the people I serve. And I love being in the people’s House. But, as some of my House colleagues have pointed out, these Senate seats only open up every 25 or 30 years,” Raskin said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) attempting to get information from FBI Director Christopher Wray is really about helping former President Donald Trump. Anchor Dana Bash said, “Let’s go back to the initial question about how much access the Congress will get to this document, whether you can actually have it. If the roles were reversed, and you found out that the FBI had a document containing an allegation about Donald Trump, wouldn’t you want unfettered access to that document?”

Ranking member of the House Oversight Committee Jamie Raskin (D-MD) threw a “tantrum” on Thursday because he has not received a copy of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop after House Democrats were in the majority for two years. Even though Democrats refused to admit the emails on the laptop were authentic for over a year after initially reported in October of 2020, Raskin is now scolding his colleague Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the Oversight Committee, for not providing a copy to him. “Rather than provide the Minority with equal access to this drive, you have directed us to obtain...

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that the Republican Party had “turned into a messianic cult of personality around” former President Donald Trump.When asked about House Republicans requesting Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg testify, Raskin said, “Let’s start with this, we actually have jurisdictional authority over the Department of Justice and the House Judiciary Committee. But it’s very well-established that even there, with the DOJ, where there is real jurisdictional oversight responsibility, that we cannot intervene in an ongoing case. Then you take it from the federal level to the state and local level, where we...