Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pointed out that Trump is still providing aid and comfort to America’s enemies with promises of pardons when he returns to the White House.
Raskin said on Inside with Jen Psaki:
It’s predictable, but completely outrageous and outrageous. You have a former president of the United States running for president and saying he will consider telegraphing his real intentions to all his followers by pardoning people convicted of a seditious conspiracy, which means a conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. United States. And of course, Trump set all these events in motion with his determination to overturn the 2020 presidential election, overturning Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College victory by over 7 million votes.
And now he offers the insurgents even more aid and comfort by promising, or at least heavily intimidating, that he will pardon them for what they have done. So we are dealing with exactly the same kind of authoritarianism that we witnessed on January 6. And America needs to understand it. We are only in the middle of this battle. In a sense, we’re not over it yet. I know. You know, there’s a sense in which Republicans’ opposition to Trump’s impeachment or conviction, outside of a noble ten members in the House of Representatives and the Senate in the Senate, that their opposition was a tragedy. And the temptation is to see all this as a farce, but it is a farce that could bring the Republic to its knees. And I would much rather see the dissolution of the Republican Party than the US Constitution.
Video from Raskin:
In the same Meet The Press interview: Trump said he would consider pardoning the 1/6 terrorists, presumably including himself, and the former president accepted Putin’s support in the 2024 election. Trump remains the North Star for America’s enemies both foreign and domestic. He is the greatest hope for America’s enemies who want to see democracy destroyed from within.
Trump will only stop helping those who want to harm the nation if he is behind bars. If Donald Trump is allowed to walk freely and unchecked by the American media, the threat to democracy will continue.