Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), former lead House impeachment manager in Trump’s Jan. 9-Feb. 13] Senate impeachment trial for “incitement of insurrection,” continues to go after 76-year-old former President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. Raskin called Trump as “snowflake” for saying in 14-page letter to the Committee that many Republicans “feel” that the 2020 election was rigged by Democrats. Raskin shows he’s overly invested in sending a referral to 70-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland for criminal charges once the Committee concludes its work. Raskin sold his heart out to the U.S. Senate at Trump’s impeachment hearing, imploring Senators to convict Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” Raskin now knows that the Jan. 6 Capitol riots were not a spontaneous reaction to Trump’s speech on the Ellipse Jan. 6 but were planned for months.
Raskin couldn’t convict Trump in the U.S. Senate but instead became an influential part of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee trying to show that Trump actually planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Raskin’s colleague, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), wrecked he political career trying to charge Trump with committing a crime Jan. 6. Much of the Committee’s blockbuster testimony actually involved hearsay, especially 26-year-old former assistant to former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who testified June 28 that Trump tried to commandeer his presidential limo on Jan. 6, 2021, grabbing the steering wheel from his Secret Service agent. Hutchinson was not in the limo but heard second hand what Trump did Jan. 6. Trump’s former Secret Service Agent Tony Oranato, who was present in Trump’s presidential limo, said the incident recounted by Hutchinson never took place.
Like so many things about the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, so much was fabricated to make Trump look bad, especially reports that he spent 187 minutes between the start of the riots and speaking to the media. Jan. 6 Democrats and Republicans seek to connect Trump with planning and orchestrating the riots. Today’s FBI report about agents backing the rioters because they watched Black Lives Matter torch U.S. cities for months after the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. So, when it comes to motives for white groups rioting Jan. 6, the FBI reveals it was a backlash to BLM given a green light to torch Americans cities in the summer of the 2020 presidential election. Take the story of Capitol Hill police officer Brian Sicknick. Sicknick was touted as a hero for dying at the hands of “Trump supporters,” who, according to the New York Timesm, bashed head in with a fire extinguisher.
It took four months before the D.C. coroner admitted, after letting Sicknick lie-in-state in the Capitol Rotunda, that he died of a stroke, showed no physical injuries in protecting the Capitol. Sicknick’s narrative tells the real story behind the Jan. 6 so-called “insurrection” that some nine deaths were fabricated by Democrats and the press. Only 31-year-old Arizona resident Ashli Babbitt was shot by Capitol Police for going through a window into the Capitol. Yet even today, if you ask anyone on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, they’d tell you that Trump’s angry mob murdered Sicknick. House Jan. 6 Select Committee sought to draw every guilty inference about Trump on Jan. 6, namely, that he could have called off the dogs and save the Capitol from the riot. House Democrats and the press refuse to admit that Trump had nothing to do with disgruntled groups that attacked the Capitol.
Raskin said Trump was playing “silly games” with the Committee, knowing that he played an active role in planning and organizing the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. “I mean, that letter, including the use of the royal ‘we,’ which was pretty jarring, is just an outrageous distraction from the reality to the extent that there’s anything substance or substantive there,” Raskin said making no sense. Raskin had his mind made up about Trump’s guilt in the Capitol riots from his Jan. 9-Feb. 13 impeachment trial. “They can’t say. They just have a feeling . An in fact, Trump use that too in this enormously revealing letter, where he says lots of people “feel” that there was fraud,” Rasikin said, convinced that the Trump’s “Big Lie” about election fraud robbed him of a second term. Trump has refused to accept that a sizable majority of voters had enough of his leadership and looked for a change in 2020.
Raskin shows why all the wasted time-and-energy in the Jan. 6 House Select Committee will be regarded as a partisan witch hunt when etched into the history books. Raskin couldn’t convict Trump of “incitement of insurrection” in his impeachment trial and wanted, together with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), another bit at the apple. “I’m sorry. Your feelings, Mr. Snowflake, cannot dictate the course of the future of the republic. No, you feelings cannot dictate our elections,” Rasking said, showing his extreme prejudice against Trump. Whatever Trump believes about the election, that has nothing to do whether he planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Cheney and her Co-Chairman Rep. Bernie Thomson (D-Ala.) insist Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 insurrection. They have no facts, no evidence only cherry-picked testimony from Trump-hating Democrats and Republicans.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
