Mr Raskin continued, asking what if it wasn’t the Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol but Isis. “Our apologies to the stenographer, we’re going to do it civilly like two lawyers,” Mr Raskin said. They were both scolded as the stenographer struggled to keep up with the back and forth. Mr Gatez accepts Mr Biden is the president, but says Mr Trump would be in the Oval Office if the scales weren’t tipped by mail-in ballots.įireworks ensued as Mr Raskin said judges rejected all the claims of fraud while Mr Gaetz shot back that, actually, no court took up the cases on procedural grounds and so none of the facts of those cases were reviewed.
Mr Raskin pressed Mr Gaetz on whether he accepts Mr Biden won the election. “They’d be working on the legislative promises they made to constituents, but they can’t get a bill, they can’t deliver for the people and so all of this January 6 obsession is the sophistry.” “Is there a single American who believes that if the Democrats had a reconciliation deal and an infrastructure bill we’d be doing this this week? Absolutely not,” Mr Gaetz said. Mr Gaetz said the focus with Mr Bannon and 6 January is a “uniquely Washington obsession”. He could be jailed for up to a year if convicted. The fiery but mostly collegial repartee between the two came after the 6 January committee formally approved a criminal contempt report to hold Mr Bannon in contempt of Congress. "Well my goodness, it's a horrible thing, what he went through, but it doesn't change the fact of, uh, his political beliefs," she said, "and I believe he's a communist and I believe what he's doing on the January 6th Committee is completely wrong.“Blah, blah, blah,” said Mr Raskin, who himself objected to the Electoral College vote certification in 2017 on a legal technicality. Greene then stated the quiet part out loud. And the country shouldn't have to go through all that with him." "And I do think it clouds his judgment and you could see that, that very darkness and that pain manifest on Thursday in a way that's not particularly relevant to the challenges that we've talked about, but it might be deeply relevant to what he's going through. "But I think for Jamie Raskin, it's really like, his service in the Congress has almost become like inextricably attached to this sad personal trauma he's had," Gaetz proclaimed. "And we want to vindicate the rights of our citizens and we want to champion their causes and battle their dislikes," Gaetz remarked. "We're not here out of a sense of grievance or hatred.
"Well and we love this country," Gaetz added. "We're here to serve the people," Greene interjected. "You know, we try to come to the job to uplift people," Gaetz resumed.
But I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in the Congress to such an interwoven way that he's unable to do the congressional experience outside of just the dungeon of that personal trauma," Gaetz continued, "and I think it makes him look at everything in these very like, dark and severe ways." "As human beings, our hearts go out to him. And what I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin, you know, no one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide," said Gaetz. "When people encounter trauma, they often associate a lot of the other things around that trauma with it, even if they don't naturally or even rationally associate. Now, with just 24 hours remaining before public hearings revealing what the bipartisan congressional commission has found begin, Gaetz and Greene have launched a new and unusually cruel offensive against Raskin. Raskin also sits on the Select Committee investigating the attack, which was triggered (at least in part) by Republican lawmakers refusing to acknowledge President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election at Trump's behest. Raskin served as the House of Representatives' manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment for inciting the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection. United States Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) appeared on a recent edition of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia)'s podcast and suggested that Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is unable to do his job because his son committed suicide. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
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