Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, expressed skepticism about the Republican Party's claims of evidence against former Jan. 6 Committee members, stating that they haven't contradicted any factual statements made by the committee or its witnesses. Raskin pledged to resist any attempts to politicize the Department of Justice against Trump's opponents or in favor of his allies.
Two weeks after President-elect Donald Trump suggested Jan.
“Witness tampering and perjury are about trying to get people to lie. Encouraging truthfulness is not a crime,” Raskin said. “It is not against the law to encourage someone to testify truthfully in a legal proceeding.” He also noted that Republicans “haven’t contradicted a single thing that Cassidy Hutchinson said or any of the factual statements in the Committee’s report.
The report claims there is more than a terabyte of “missing digital data” as well as “missing video recordings of witness interviews,” and highlights multiple cases of alleged “collusion” in the investigation, including between “Special Counsel Jack Smith and President Trump’s adversaries.” Raskin said that the Speech and Debate Clause “protects legislators in their legislative capacities, both in direct legislative action and investigative research,” and “if the executive branch can intimidate legislators to stop them from investigating, you’re shutting down a central aspect of legislative functioning.
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