Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), one of seven Democrats on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said the impeachment of former President Donald Trump was “almost inevitable.”
Raskin, in an interview with MSNBC on Friday, told writer Jordan Rubin that Trump is a “one-man crime wave” and suggested that he could face criminal charges beyond the four panels recommended to the Department of Justice.
“I prefer to focus on the idea that it’s almost impossible to remember that there will be charges because the evidence is just so overwhelming,” said Raskin, who later spoke of Trump’s “full and clear and naked intent” for people to interfere with the count. of Electoral College votes.
“We think there will be allegations about some things that we didn’t do, because we don’t have all the prosecutorial resources that the Department of Justice has, so we think we might be gathering more evidence than we have.”
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Raskin, who previously said Trump’s role in the deadly riots was not a “whodunnit” question, added that it would hurt the country to never see Trump brought to justice by the criminal justice system.
“And there is no understanding that more than 900 people can be prosecuted and prosecuted and convicted and sentenced for assaulting federal officials and destroying federal property and seditious conspiracy, meaning conspiracy to overthrow the government, but the people who are at the very top of the pyramid, who set all events into motion , somehow walked off scot-free. I mean, I think it’s a blow to our justice system.
Raskin noted that Trump faces several criminal and civil charges in other cases around the country.
“They were really a one-man crime wave,” Raskin said.
“And for him to get a role in some other jurisdiction, I don’t know about that. But ultimately we have to trust that the justice system will work.
You can read more of Raskin’s interview with MSNBC’s “Deadline: Legal Blog” here.