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Congressman Jamie Raskin has issued a blunt warning to Donald Trump, outlining what he would do if he becomes chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Raskin vowed to oppose what he described as the weaponisation of government for “mafia-style revenge” against perceived political opponents. He also named several individuals he says have faced political targeting.

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00:00Welcome to a new era of American politics, you guys.
00:05The American people are repudiating the corruption of Donald Trump and his family.
00:11They are repudiating the authoritarianism of MAGA.
00:16And we are also repudiating all of the alliances and coalitions
00:21with Vladimir Putin's fascism tonight all over the world.
00:28And from the free state to Texas and California, New Hampshire and Maine and Michigan,
00:33we're not going back. We're never going back to that.
00:38We're not going to allow our government to be treated as an instrument of corrupt self-enrichment
00:45by the president and his family.
00:47By his own account, Donald Trump made $2.2 billion in his first year in public office.
00:55That is more than $2 billion more than every other president in American history combined.
01:02Nobody else ever dared dream go into business like that.
01:06That's more than every member of the House and the Senate made together in the two years of this Congress.
01:13And check it out. That comes to more than $1 billion an hour.
01:19One, I'm sorry, $1 million an hour that he earned.
01:23More than $1 million an hour that he earned on the side in his various business endeavors.
01:30The American citizen who's earning an average salary has to work 20 years to earn, in quotes,
01:38what Donald Trump got from foreign governments, crypto interests, and other corrupt petitioners in a single hour.
01:48My friends, we have got to start to put an end to this corruption.
01:52And it starts tonight.
01:59And when I raised it before, Donald Trump Jr. says,
02:02hey, my dad doesn't even accept his government salary of $400,000.
02:07Hey, I'm sorry, Mr. Trump Jr.
02:10That's all he's allowed to accept.
02:13The framers of the Constitution were very clear that they wanted the president to be reporting to the American people,
02:21not to Vladimir Putin, not to Qatar or the United Arab Emirates,
02:26not to the crypto criminals and the gangsters, but only the people.
02:30Here, the people rule.
02:32That's us.
02:33Yes.
02:35Yes.
02:39Reading the newspaper is not going to be like the Sopranos anymore, you guys.
02:45We're singing a different tune tonight, and it sounds a lot like the land of hope and dreams Bruce Springsteen
02:52is singing of.
02:55If I become the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
02:58we are not going to allow the government to be treated as a weapon of mafia-style revenge
03:04for this doddering criminal felon against his perceived political opponents,
03:09like James Comey, like Letitia James, like Mark Kelly, like Maggie Goodlander,
03:15like Jason Crowe, like dozens of other Americans,
03:18including a fellow Montgomery Countyan who's here tonight.
03:21Please welcome Davey Hearn, the three-time Olympic canoeist.
03:31You guys know Davey.
03:33They try to set him up.
03:34They try to set him up on the reflecting pool job.
03:38Yeah.
03:39They knew from the Interior Department's report that it was Donald Trump and his pool guy from Mar-a-Lago
03:48and the cronies at the consultant company that got the insider no-bid government contract for more than $25 million.
03:57They're the ones who turned the reflecting pool into the strait of warm ooze.
04:06Not Davey Hearn.
04:07But they tried to send him away for 10 years for felony destruction of federal property.
04:14Can you believe that?
04:16Councilman Adam Van Grack in Rockville and lots of people throughout Montgomery County organized a movement to free Davey Hearn.
04:23And those charges were dropped permanently with prejudice against Davey.
04:32And I wrote a letter to the U.S. attorney from the District of Columbia,
04:40a Fox News host from the past,
04:45named Janine,
04:46what's her last name?
04:50Okay, cool.
04:51Janine, what's her name?
04:53Janine Pirro.
04:55And I wrote a letter to Janine Pirro and I said,
04:57number one,
04:58pay for Davey's legal fees.
05:00Number two,
05:02get your hands off my constituents.
05:04And number three,
05:05if you're still looking for a felon scofflaw vandal in the District of Columbia,
05:11I've got a great lead on the guy who bulldozed the East Wing of the White House
05:17and is desecrating the Kennedy Center.
05:24Well, that reflecting pool,
05:26the Strait of Wormuz,
05:27is now a symbol of the corruption of this administration.
05:30They said they were going to drain the swamp.
05:32They moved into the swamp.
05:34They filled the swamp.
05:35The banks of it overflowed.
05:37It's crawling up the Lincoln Memorial,
05:39the algae farm they created.
05:42It's going to go and creep up on the guy who created the Republican Party
05:47and all of it a gift from the guy who destroyed the Republican Party.
05:55Donald Trump's got a staph infection,
05:57but we're going to start to clean it up in January.
06:02RFK Jr.,
06:03Todd Blanche,
06:04J.D. Vince.
06:06You know what Maha stands for,
06:09don't you?
06:09The measles are here again.
06:14My friends,
06:15this is America.
06:16This is the people's government.
06:19This is our Constitution.
06:21This is our Bill of Rights.
06:24And our government will be used only as an instrument for the common good,
06:29for the health care of all the people in the country,
06:32to safeguard our environment,
06:35and to take care of our climate system,
06:38to protect our families,
06:40our communities,
06:41our children,
06:41our intellectual property,
06:43our democracy,
06:45our sovereignty,
06:45and our national security
06:46against those corporate practitioners of artificial intelligence
06:51who have no moral or emotional human intelligence left.
06:55We're going to stand up together and turn it around.
07:00We're going to defend humanity.
07:02We're going to defend America.
07:06We're going to see democracy on the growth track again.
07:09When Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America,
07:11he observed that democracy and voting rights
07:13were either shrinking,
07:16shriveling away,
07:17or growing and expanding.
07:18And we've been in this terrible,
07:20I was going to say contractionary mode,
07:22but I'm not going to use that tonight.
07:23We've been in this reductionist mode
07:26with all of their disenfranchisement,
07:28all their voter suppression schemes.
07:31We're going to turn it around.
07:32Let's get democracy moving again.
07:34It's 2026.
07:37How about it's time we start electing
07:39the president of the United States
07:40the way we elect governors and mayors
07:42and county executives
07:43and representative senators.
07:45Whoever gets the most votes wins.
07:47How about that?
07:49Yeah.
07:55Something I agree with Donald Trump
07:57about is statehood,
07:58but not statehood for Canada,
08:01not for Greenland,
08:03not for Panama.
08:04They've not asked for statehood.
08:06How about statehood
08:07for the 713,000 taxpaying draftable citizens
08:11of Washington, D.C.
08:13down the road?
08:15How about statehood
08:16for three and a half million
08:18American citizens in Puerto Rico
08:20who can vote
08:21for no federal voting representation at all?
08:26We're going to turn it all around.
08:27We're going to get democracy moving again,
08:29my friends.
08:30I was just,
08:31it was just whispered in my ear.
08:32Tell me if I'm,
08:33this may be a mirage
08:35at this point in the day,
08:36but did somebody just whisper in my ear
08:38that I was just declared the winner
08:39with 88% of the vote?
08:41Is that right?
08:43All right.
08:53Thank you everybody
08:55for that vote of confidence.
08:59Thank you for indulging
09:01my campaign schedule.
09:03We went to 27 states.
09:05We raised and gave away
09:07five and a half million dollars
09:09for candidates around the country.
09:11We supported more than 175 candidates
09:14in America.
09:16This victory is our victory for America.
09:20And I want to thank you all
09:21for being part of it.
09:22I'm going to leave you with the words
09:24of some of the great democracy heroes
09:26that have traveled with me in my heart
09:29as I've crossed our beautiful country.
09:31One of them, Thomas Jefferson,
09:33you know, in 1798,
09:34when they passed the Alien and Sedition Acts,
09:36a friend wrote him and he said,
09:38is this really the same country
09:40that had a revolution
09:41against kings and tyrants?
09:43They were rounding up
09:44dangerous French revolutionaries
09:46and throwing newspaper editors
09:48and politicians into jail.
09:50And his friend expressed despair
09:51about where things were going.
09:53And Jefferson wrote him back
09:55and he said,
09:55a little patience
09:56in the reign of witches
09:58shall pass over.
09:59Their spells dissolve
10:00and the people recovering
10:02their true sight
10:03will restore their government
10:04to its true principles.
10:06In the meantime,
10:07we are suffering
10:07all of the malignities
10:09of war and national debt.
10:11But if the game
10:12runs against us sometimes,
10:13we must have patience
10:15because this is a game
10:16where principles are at stake.
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