Congressman Jamie Raskin has reportedly announced that he is cancer free, but on the floor of Congress he made it clear that his country isn’t. The United States still suffers, Raskin asserts, from a malignancy called “The Big Lie” — and its damage is deep and ongoing.
In a energetic rant in the House Chamber, Raskin denounces the feckless whataboutism of his congressional colleagues in the GOP who perpetrated the Big Lie about the 2020 election, and the subsequent (and accompanying) Big Lie concerning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.
Raskin rages against the Big Lie as it pertained to the 2020 election and spread from there to encompass the January 6th fictions that the likes of Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene have promoted.
To believe the MAGA claims about January 6, Raskin says, “We have to disbelieve the evidence of our own eyes.”
The lies are “nonsense!” Raskin exclaims in a video below, shared by activist and film star Mia Farrow. “Sixty federal and state courts rejected every claim of electoral fraud and corruption that they put forward,” Raskin says, and he is just getting started.
Thank you @jamie_raskin. ( here he lays out the facts. Useful for those friends who unfortunately fell for the big lie) pic.twitter.com/RUg7RPDUuS
— Mia Farrow 💙🏳️🌈 🌻 (@MiaFarrow) April 20, 2023
The congressman also lambasted the GOP tactic of laying the disaster in Afghanistan at the feet of Joe Biden alone. In a war begun during the George W. Bush administration, during which President Donald Trump released 5000 Taliban prisoners, the blame Afghan game is irresponsible governance, a mockery, Raskin says.
“Narrowly criticizing the end of the Afghan War,” Raskin writes, “and ignoring Trump’s dangerous deal with the Taliban that set the stage for it makes a mockery of national security. Trump’s deal released 5,000 Taliban fighters, bolstering their forces laying siege to Kabul.”
Narrowly criticizing the end of the Afghan War and ignoring Trump's dangerous deal with the Taliban that set the stage for it makes a mockery of national security. Trump's deal released 5,000 Taliban fighters, bolstering their forces laying siege to Kabul. pic.twitter.com/aljEVy7Qp1
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) April 19, 2023
On a positive personal note, the Maryland congressman is reported to be close to success in his chemotherapy regimen against cancer. Raskin told a virtual event he attended on Thursday that “the doctors tell me the chemotherapy has extinguished the cancer cells, at least as far as they can tell.”
Raskin shares health update: "Chemotherapy has extinguished the cancer cells" https://t.co/9AL5wKnCjl pic.twitter.com/vNdxVTL5gU
— The Hill (@thehill) April 21, 2023
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