{"id":11494,"date":"2021-01-17T23:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:33:56","slug":"post2-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11494","title":{"rendered":"“Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin discusses impeachment strategy, memories of his late son during CNN appearance”, The Baltimore Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Christine Condon, Jan 17, 2021<\/p>\n

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who will lead the prosecution of President Donald Trump<\/a> during an eventual second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, appeared on CNN Sunday morning to explain some of the strategy behind the latest impeachment of the 45th president, who is set to leave office Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), right, and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) speak to each other at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. (Anna Moneymaker\/The New York Times)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper on his \u201cState of the Union\u201d show Sunday morning why Congressional leaders should even bother to hold a trial<\/a> for the president after he leaves office, Raskin called Trump\u2019s actions the \u201cmost serious presidential crime in the history of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody would seriously argue that we should establish a precedent where every president on the way out the door has two weeks or three weeks or four weeks to try to incite an armed insurrection against the Union or organize a coup against the Union, and if it succeeds, he becomes a dictator, and if it fails, he\u2019s not subject to impeachment or conviction because we just want to let bygones be bygones,\u201d said Raskin, a Democrat who represents parts of Frederick, Carroll and Montgomery counties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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