Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin has stood through multiple cancer battles to voice powerful support for democracy in the House chamber, his chief weapon in the fight being a passionate intolerance for what he characterizes as lies by many of his Republican colleagues.
Raskin gets especially enraged about the so-called “Big Lie” — the Donald Trump-endorsed notion that the 2020 election was rigged and/or stolen from. See below as Raskin animatedly calls that idea “Nonsense!” — reminding congress members on the House floor that “sixty federal and state courts rejected every claim of electoral fraud and corruption that [MAGA] put forward.”
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
But there is always a new lie to battle against in today’s political environment, as Raskin sees it — and what’s on the congressional agenda now is the Rep. Jim Comer-led investigation into an unsubstantiated accusation that President Joe Biden once took a bribe.
Raskin and many of his colleagues find the Biden allegation spurious and dishonorable, politically motivated and powered by a House Oversight Committee with a mandate to distract from Donald Trump facing more than 70 criminal charges in two different legal cases.
Raskin, who has nearly 800K followers on Twitter, shared U.S. Congressman Dan Goldman (79K followers) exposing the Comer-conducted Biden investigation as a witch hunt and a hoax, to use two of MAGA’s favorite descriptions.
During today's hearing, @RepDanGoldman used his time to remind Chairman Comer that the claims of congressional Republicans about the secondhand hearsay contained in Form FD-1023 were thoroughly debunked years ago: https://t.co/sRmp1wZHnR
— Oversight Committee Democrats (@OversightDems) June 14, 2023
Raskin tells his followers that Goldman used his floor time to “remind Chairman Comer that the claims of congressional Republicans about the secondhand hearsay contained in Form FD-1023 were thoroughly debunked years ago.”
Goldman writes simply that he aspires to “set the record straight.”
Goldman says the key document (Form FD-1023) Comer and his accusatory colleagues “keep referring to” turns out to be “shockingly just a three-year-old, second-hand, hearsay, uncorroborated rehashing of Rudy Giuliani‘s bogus allegations that he got from corrupt Ukrainian officials.”
