Jamie Raskin

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.

calling not the National Guard, which was under the direct unilateral control of Donald Trump, but calling members of Congress, urging them to delay certification and to nullify the election results.

Special Counsel Smith, you pursued the facts.

You followed every applicable law, ethics rule, and DOJ regulation.

Your decisions were reviewed by the public integrity section.

You acted based solely on the facts, the opposite of Donald Trump.

who now has purported to take over the Department of Justice.

He's in charge of the whole thing under his unitary executive theory, and he acts openly, purely based on political vendetta and motives of personal revenge, and he doesn't deny it.

Our colleagues,

have complained about the special counsel's review of toll records, which are phone records, like a phone bill, showing only the timing and duration of calls and containing no content, no substance whatsoever from the calls.

But those records were lawfully subpoenaed because Donald Trump made those members of Congress relevant to the investigation.

It was Trump who chose to call them to advance his criminal scheme.

As you testified, Mr. Smith, if Donald Trump had chosen to call