Raskin: Impeachment Is to ‘Protect the Republic’ from Trump, Prevent Him from Holding Federal Office

[mystery-ak]

Raskin: Impeachment Is to ‘Protect the Republic’ from Trump, Prevent Him from Holding Federal Office in the Future

Pam Key 25 Jan 2021

Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the point of impeachment was to “protect the Republic” from former President Donald Trump and prevent him from holding federal office in the future.

Raskin said, “We intend to show the worst presidential crime against the Republic in American history. The violence was terrifying and overwhelming. Five people died, police officer hit over the head with a fire extinguisher, police officers beat up, grabbed, pushed, shoved, jostled.”

He continued, “Wednesday, January 6 was not some random arbitrary day chosen by the president and the organizers of this rally. This was the day that Congress met in joint session, the House and the Senate, to count the Electoral College votes that had been certified by 50 states and the District of Columbia, so this was the very last step in the ratification of the popular vote which meant more than 7 million votes for the Biden/Harris ticket and the Electoral College vote which was 306-232, the exact margin exactly that Trump had won by in 2016 which he declared to be a landslide. This was the last opportunity. We find out more and more every day. The president was willing to use any means, unlawful, lawful, lawless, violence, whatever. He was willing to incite insurrection against the United States in order to nullify the actual Electoral College vote that was to be counted and to try essentially to derail that election and to get himself reinstalled as president of the United States. That is a ghastly crime against the Republic.”

He added, “One thing that I want to point out is that impeachment is not so much nearly about the past as it is about the future. The framers of the Constitution put impeachment, conviction and disqualification from further federal office holding in the Constitution to protect the Republic, to preserve the Constitution. That’s why it’s in there. President Trump or any other Trump who’s impeached and convicted doesn’t send a single minute in jail. It is not a criminal prosecution. It is a protective, civil action to guard the Republic against someone who’s committed high crimes and misdemeanors against the people and proven himself to be a danger to the country.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/25/raskin-impeachment-is-to-protect-the-republic-from-trump-prevent-him-from-holding-federal-office-in-the-future/

[Hoodat]

He added, “One thing that I want to point out is that impeachment is not so much nearly about the past as it is about the future."

Straight out of George Orwell's 1984.

[skeeter]

I think this guy meant to say impeachment is meant to protect the republic from 74 million  American voters. Which is another way to say he doesn’t think we are a republic.

[dfwgator]

All it will do is make Trump more popular than if they didn't do the Impeachment.

[Hoodat]

All it will do is make Trump more popular than if they didn't do the Impeachment.

Clearly, the Dems are terrified of Trump.

[Wingnut]

All it will do is make Trump more popular than if they didn't do the Impeachment.

They just don't get us deplorable bitter clingers.  but they will.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Ya' know, here's the thing? Why not try Trump in civilian court (if you're so damn certain he's guilty)? Why the rush on Impeachment that is very possible unconstitutional anyway?

[dancer]

Clearly, the Dems are terrified of Trump.

They should be.  He has it all and he isn't afraid to use it.   

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This is all smoke and mirrors.

The hyperbole the Dems are faking is not toward what is a clearly unconstitutional impeachment, but to enacting the 14th Amendment, which takes a simple majority rather than 2/3.

Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.