A Democrat on the January 6 panel said that Donald Trump doesn’t regret his actions and would ‘do it again’ in an argument for why the former president should face reprimanding for his actions that day and in the year following.
Jamie Raskin, one of the nine members of the select committee probing the Capitol attack, told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning is essentially ‘confessing’ through his continued denial that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
‘Is he confessing?’ NBC anchor Chuck Todd asked.
‘Yea,’ Raskin replied. ‘He’s essentially saying, ‘Yeah I did it and I’ll do it again,’ which is what we’ve been contending all along.’
‘If you vow impunity for attempts at unconstitutional seizures of power, which is what a coup is, then you’re inviting it again in the future,’ the Maryland Democratic congressman continued. ‘And to be a strong self-sustaining self-respecting democracy, we can’t allow people to decide they are above the law and that they are more important than our constitutional processes.’
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the January 6 select committee, said Sunday that Donald Trump is saying that he would not act any differently if he could redo the event leading up to and on the day of January 6, 2021
Trump posted to his media site Truth Social on Sunday that he has ‘no question’ that he won the 2020 presidential election and said his thoughts that it was rigged and stolen have ‘only gotten stronger’
The comments come the same morning that Trump posted to his Truth Social account blasting the committee and its public televised hearings – insisting that he has evidence that he won the 2020 presidential election and saying ‘in my mind’ there was no doubt that he was the victor.
‘The highly partisan Unselects are trying to create a FAKE narrative, for whatever reason but only with evil intention, that ‘He (me) knew he lost the Election.’ This is completely false,’ Trump posted to his account on Sunday.
‘I felt the Election was RIGGED & STOLLEN, have from the very beginning, & have only gotten stronger in that belief with time & large amounts of additional evidence and proof. In my mind I have, & HAVE HAD, NO QUESTION, and MANY people would be willing to so attest, but the Unselects don’t want to hear them……’ he added.
The committee is holding its fourth of eight hearings on Tuesday and a fifth on Thursday as the seven Democrats and two Republicans scramble to finish the proceedings before the 2022 midterms, which are likely to turn the House red.
The second hearing last Monday sought to prove that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election but still pushed his claims of fraud. Pictured: January 6 select committee held its third hearing on Thursday, June 16 and presented the pressure campaign for Vice President Mike Pence to stop certification of the results
‘I have sooo many witnesses to everything good, but the highly partisan and one sided Unselect Committee of political hacks has not interest in hearing or seeing them,’ the former president wrote in a separate post.
‘This Witch Hunt could all be ended quickly if they did!’
The third select committee hearing Thursday focused on the pressure campaign by Trump to get Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College results.
The second was aimed at showing Trump was fully aware that he really lost the election but continued to push the ‘Big Lie’ that there was widespread fraud and election rigging that resulted in Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump insists to this day that he is the real winner.
