Rep. Jamie Raskin says Trump’s lashing out towards the Jan. 6 panel and Mike Pence is tantamount to a confession about his role in the Capitol riot. “[Trump's] essentially saying, 'yeah I did it and I’ll do it again.”
in which Trump berated Pence for refusing to overturn the election, with one former White House assistant testifying that he recalled Trump calling Pence a "wimp."at a gathering of Christian conservatives on Friday, saying he never called Pence a "wimp" but lamenting that "Mike did not have the courage to act."
Trump also hit back at the select committee, accusing it of "knowingly spinning a fake and phony narrative.""Yeah, he's essentially saying, 'yeah I did it and I’ll do it again,'" Raskin replied when asked by host Chuck Todd whether Trump was in fact confessing by lashing out at the committee. "Which is what we have been contending all along. That if you allow impunity for attempts at unconstitutional seizures of power — which is what a coup is — then you're inviting it again in the future," Raskin added.
"And to be a strong, self-sustaining, self-respecting democracy, we can't allow people to decide that they are above the law and that they are more important than our constitutional processes."
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