Jamie Raskin

Everybody here knows what you did wrong in Donald Trump's eyes and why he says you belong in prison.

You found, and I quote,

from your sworn testimony before the committee.

You found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.

When asked whether you believe the evidence was enough to obtain a criminal conviction against Donald Trump at trial, you had a one-word answer, yes.

When asked if Donald Trump was responsible for the violence that took place at the Capitol on January 6th, you said, our view of the evidence was that he caused it and that he exploited it and that it was foreseeable to him.

You found that Trump knew he had lost the election.

How?

Well, his own attorney general, William Barr, repeatedly told him so and described all of Trump's theories as BS.

Trump's top campaign advisors told him he lost the election.

Vice President Pence told him he lost the election.

More than 60 federal, state, and court decisions, including eight rendered by judges he appointed to the bench, rejected every outlandish election fraud and corruption claim that he made.

Trump himself even privately acknowledged it, gesturing to Joe Biden on TV and saying, quote, Can you believe I lost to that effing guy?

He knew he lost.

But he threw everything into his big lie, which some people, even in this room to this day, will stand by and swear by.

Well, when the big lie wasn't enough to convince officials like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to commit election fraud and just fine Trump 11,780 votes,

When it wasn't enough to convince Trump's DOJ to, quote, just call the election corrupt and leave the rest to me and the House Republicans.

When it wasn't enough to force Vice President Mike Pence to announce and then exercise lawless powers to reject electoral college votes and use counterfeit slates to anoint Trump the winner.

That's when Trump incited mass violence.

on January 6th, while more than 140 officers were being brutally assaulted by Trump's mob, while rioters beat them with flagpoles and sprayed them with chemical agents and crushed them in doorways, and while they chanted, hang Mike Pence, and chased the vice president out of the Capitol, Trump and his team worked the phones.