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TRUMP TAKEDOWN TAKEDOWN BY JAMIE RASKIN TYT Investigates: Raskin Takes No Prisoners In EPIC Trump Smackdown PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
Raskin Takes No Prisoners In EPIC Trump Smackdown TYT Investigates Nov 22, 2024 537K subscribers ... 87,481 views ... 5.4K likes Jamie Raskin crushes Donald Trump for 23 straight minutes and calls out Republicans for conveniently ignoring is poor handling of the pandemic. For more from TYT Investigates, SUBSCRIBE at: / tytinvestigatesreports You can read our stories at https://www.TYT.com/investigates LIKE and FOLLOW us at / tytinvestigates . And connect with us on Twitter @TYTInvestigates Transcript 0:00 I beseech my colleagues I will read any book any magazine any speech you've given that you want me to read read this report and come back and tell me if you think Donald Trump did the right thing in converting the White House into a for-profit operation no other president American history has come anywhere close and you ask why he's so determined to stay in office that he would unleash violence against his own vice president the brother of your colleague of our colleague why would he do that it's because it was a money-making operation and it was a it was a great business grift for a guy who went bankrupt several times and yet out of some misguided partisan loyalty you're going to stick with him I don't even know why you stick with him he was a Democrat longer than he was a republican he wanted to run for president on the Reform Party you guys have been taken over by an absolute con man and now you're acting like members of a religious cult who don't even remember how you got in in the first place we say return the profits Donald Trump $7.8 million I've got a letter uh Mr chairman 1:01 I'm going to share with you telling Donald Trump to return these $7.8 million it's a small fraction of what he raked in we want to know about the other two years in office we want to know about uh the other businesses not just those four that we were able to get information on and we want to know about every country on Earth not just the 20 uh autocracies and dictatorships that we found this is our government this is our Constitution and we're going to stand up for it against Donald Trump and anybody who follows him to the path of Oblivion Abraham Lincoln started your party as a third party to replace the wigs because they wouldn't take a moral stand against slavery it was a pro- freedom anti-slavery pro-union pro- honesty party and your party has been reduced to a corrupt authoritarian cult of personality and everybody does whatever Donald Trump tells them to do which is what we're doing here today with this stupid attempt to hold Hunter Biden in 2:00 contempt when he has come forward to say he will testify and give you everything you want as the chairman of the committee repeatedly offered in public so forgive my outrage and indignation but enough is enough let's get back to the business of the people as M recognizes Mr Higgins for five minutes Federal agency should reject the lie that it is racist to criticize the CCP America's adversary is the Chinese Communist party not the Chinese people who are victims themselves of this regime finally the face of the Cold War the CCP is waging federal agencies should fulfill their responsibilities to the American people Federal officials should use their platforms and authorities to equip America to strengthen their communities and create the new technologies that will secure a strong future for the nation today federal agencies are ill prepared to face the CCP threat a government-wide strategy is decades overdue all the dictators and despots of the world have 3:01 something in common in 2024 they're United in trying to subvert Democracy in America and they're engaged indeed in political Warfare against us as the title of this hearing has it the vicious autocrats of Russia the police state communist billionaire bureaucrats of China and North Korea and all their corrupt oligarchs and plutocrats seek to destroy the very idea of Human Rights and political Freedom that are the defining ideals of America and still the hope of a world struggling against their oppression the tyrants have something else in common Donald Trump he loves them all and they love him back he loves them because he envies their total control over their societies and they love him because they know they can manipulate and control him I confess Mr chairman that I'm appalled by the majority's decision to evade and bypass the central events of the epidemic for total political reasons the broader and 4:02 authentic context for this hearing is of course the spectacular failure of Donald Trump's Reckless and incompetent pandemic response a failure which led to the unnecessary deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of American citizens according to Trump's own officials in fact Donald Trump's knowing and willful lies cost America um at least tens of thousands of deaths according to his own White House Corona virus response coordinator Dr Deborah Burks who the chairman just cited as a decisive professional and medical Authority and she told the select subcommittee that more than 130,000 lives would have been saved during the Trump Administration if basic and proven Public Health measures had been implemented instead of disregarded on January 22nd 2020 when America identified its first case of covid-19 trump stated quote we have it totally 5:01 under control he goes on to say one day it's like a miracle it will disappear it is going away he then proceeded to abdicate any responsibility for our pandemic response and said quote I don't take any responsibility at all when he systematically failed to supply the states with critical medical equipment and PPE he set off an interstate death match for medical supplies telling Governor simply to quote try getting it yourselves I Donald Trump said about the virus I always wanted to play it down despite private privately acknowledging that covid-19 was deadly stuff he deceived America assuring everyone the virus was quote just a little like the regular flu and he embraced the herd immunity theory that some of his advisers were promoting which was uh again a dangerous and destructive thing to do after after watching the bodies pile up outside 6:02 hospitals and morgs Trump then announced he had magical cures he gave quack advice that hydroxic chloric Quin or disinfectant might be effective treatments for covid and he predicted the virus would quote like a miracle Disappear by Easter despite advice from Dr fouchy Trump touted hydroxy chloroquin and Asos as quote game changers to be put in use immediately this is the context within which we are discussing a very serious and yet uh nonetheless State based detail of one policy that's being controverted and I appreciate the fact that Governor Cuomo has appeared voluntarily to answer the questions where is Donald Trump to answer the questions about his horrific negligence as identified by his own covid-19 adviser president Trump and his allies not only spread Medical disinformation about quack medical cures 7:02 like hydroxy chloroquin and injecting 7:05 yourself with bleach but they lied to 7:07 the American people very explicitly for 7:09 their own political benefit and if 7:12 Donald Trump's apologists are really 7:14 worried about plummeting confidence in 7:17 government um and in public health they 7:20 should look at the lies and the serial 7:22 manipulation of the facts that were 7:24 engineered by Donald Trump and his 7:26 administration in their spectacularly 7:28 failed response resp to covid-19 I was 7:31 watching president Trump's um town hall 7:34 meeting on CNN last week and I saw two 7:37 remarkable things that clarified in my 7:39 mind What's Happening Here could kill 7:41 the baby in the ninth month or after the 7:43 baby was born did finish the wall if I'm 7:45 president I will have that War settled 7:47 in one day 24 hours yet boxes sent to 7:49 Chinatown Chinatown where they don't 7:51 speak even English in that Chinatown 7:53 we're talking about first I saw Donald 7:55 Trump blame vice president Pence for 7:58 failing to steal the election for him on 8:00 January 6th As Trump emphasized on 8:03 January 6th he believed and he continues 8:05 to believe that Pence did not have quote 8:07 the courage to do what needed to be done 8:10 moreover Trump assured his cult 8:11 followers that Pence was never in any 8:14 danger from the invading mob chanting 8:15 hang Mike Pence and all the violence was 8:18 Pence's own fault for not succumbing to 8:21 Trump and becoming the first vice 8:23 president in our history to step outside 8:25 of his constitutional role and declare 8:27 the president the winner against the 8:29 actual Electoral College vote but we 8:31 also saw Trump castigate and blame Jean 8:34 Carroll the woman he sexually abused in 8:37 a department store and later lied about 8:39 and defamed Trump called her a whack job 8:42 and asked what kind of a woman meets 8:44 somebody and brings them up in within 8:45 minutes you're playing Hanky Panky in a 8:47 dressing room you see he thinks it's her 8:50 fault that he sexually abused her and 8:53 watching these two glaring cases of the 8:55 GOP front runner for the presidential 8:57 nomination in 2024 blaming the victim 9:00 for his crime made me see what's 9:02 happening with these hearings on 9:04 Washington they're part of an effort to 9:06 deny Americans who live in Washington 9:09 the right to participate in 9:10 representative government and then to 9:12 blame them for their own 9:14 disenfranchisement and their own lack of 9:17 representation in Congress when he was 9:18 president Trump said that he and she the 9:21 president of China and chairman of the 9:22 Communist Party quote love each other 9:25 and Trump called she a brilliant man he 9:28 openly envied and marveled over she's 9:30 total control over his people saying 9:32 quote he controls 1.4 billion people 9:35 with an Iron Fist and when people ask 9:38 questions about shei in the ccp's role 9:41 at the beginning of the covid-19 crisis 9:43 Trump repeatedly defended shei and 9:45 praised his excellent leadership calling 9:48 him a brilliant man smart brilliant 9:51 everything perfect we love each other 9:53 president XI who's a friend of mine 9:55 who's very smart very good man nobody 9:57 like that the look The the whole thing 10:00 my feeling toward you is an incredibly 10:02 warm one he said Trump's repeatedly 10:04 praised Russia's Lawless and bloody 10:07 invasion of Ukraine as smart at a 10:10 maralago fundraiser in 2022 he gushed 10:13 that Putin was taking over a country a 10:16 vast vast location a great piece of land 10:19 with a lot of people and just walking 10:21 right in at the presidential debate 10:23 earlier this month he refused to say 10:25 that he wanted Ukraine to win the war 10:27 but said he would end the war in 24 10:29 hours meaning he would per usual cave in 10:32 to Putin's propaganda and outrageous 10:35 demands and Seed large parts of Ukraine 10:37 to the Russian strongman who imprisons 10:40 poisons and murders his political 10:42 opponents Trump's Chief of Staff John 10:44 Kelly described his own boss as quote a 10:47 person who admires autocrats and 10:50 murderous dictators a person that has 10:52 nothing but contempt for our Democratic 10:55 institutions our Constitution and the 10:57 rule of law and to quote Trump chilling 11:00 2018 comments to Fox News about Kim 11:03 Jong-un Trump said he's the head of a 11:05 country and I mean he's the strong head 11:07 don't let anyone think anything 11:08 different he speaks and his people sit 11:10 up at attention I want my people to do 11:13 the same Trump openly catered to Putin 11:16 defended the former KGB Chief and 11:19 aggressively took his side against the 11:21 NSA the CIA the defense intelligence 11:24 agency the FBI and more than a dozen 11:26 other us intelligence agencies which 11:28 found that Putin was engaged in active 11:31 political Espionage sabotage and 11:33 interference in the 11:35 2016 American presidential election a 11:38 form of shocking impas that just invited 11:41 further Russian aggression against us in 11:43 2020 and now again in the 2024 campaign 11:47 HR McMaster Trump's former National 11:49 Security adviser recounted a meeting 11:51 between Chinese president shei and 11:53 Donald Trump according to McMaster she 11:56 quote 8 hour lunch because Trump madly 11:59 ingratiated himself to she and 12:02 completely failed to stand up for US 12:05 foreign policy interests McMaster writes 12:07 that Trump frequently revealed his 12:09 affinity for strong men and belief that 12:11 he alone could form a good relationship 12:14 with Putin as president according to his 12:17 own National Security adviser John 12:19 Bolton Trump encouraged she's building 12:21 and use of concentration camps to hold 12:24 Wagers in shinjang province in the 2024 12:28 campaign Trump has followed has promised 12:30 to follow the lead of these dictators in 12:33 the global axis of autocrats a convicted 12:36 felon and adjudicated sexual As salent 12:38 Trump repeatedly says he would suspend 12:40 the rule of law in our country override 12:43 the Constitution as dictator on day one 12:46 launch the biggest Mass detention and 12:48 internment of immigrants in American 12:50 history and replace tens of thousands of 12:53 professional civil servants with 12:55 political Loyalists and the personal 12:57 sycophant he C aves he's pledged to use 13:00 the Department of Justice as a weapon to 13:02 investigate and prosecute his political 13:04 enemies and he's not kidding he packed 13:06 and stacked the Supreme Court to destroy 13:09 a fundamental constitutional Freedom 13:11 women enjoyed for more than a half 13:12 century in America he personally ordered 13:15 the weaponization of the Department of 13:16 Justice in the IRS against Hillary 13:18 Clinton his own FBI director James Comey 13:22 his own Deputy FBI director Andrew 13:24 McCabe his private lawyer for years 13:26 Michael Cohen who was put in solid 13:29 milary confinement for two weeks when he 13:31 refused to promise he would not write a 13:34 book about Donald Trump and was released 13:36 by a United States federal district 13:38 judge who was shocked by the blatantly 13:41 vindictive and unconstitutional 13:43 persecution of an American citizen for 13:45 exercising his first amendment rights 13:48 Putin she Trump and hungary's Tyrant 13:51 Victor orband who had a slumber party at 13:53 maralago when he was in town promoting 13:56 illiberal democracy which means mob rule 13:59 without Freedom these are the new axis 14:01 of autocrats attacking American 14:04 democracy and freedom and human rights 14:07 all over the world chairman thank you 14:08 very much and Dr Ruiz thank you thank 14:10 you for your testimony Governor Cuomo 14:12 the allegations that have been brought 14:13 against you today are obviously serious 14:15 and because we on the oversight 14:17 committee believe in accountability for 14:19 all public officials I appreciate your 14:22 willingness to participate voluntarily 14:24 in today's hearing uh and to answer 14:26 every question coming at you and to 14:28 address 14:29 what the majority is saying do you have 14:31 any doubt that Donald Trump's lies about 14:35 the virus and his deliberate failure to 14:37 develop a national policy to help the 14:40 states made it more difficult for New 14:42 York and other states to manage their 14:45 pandemic response Congressman I live 14:49 this like few others uh I have little 14:52 doubt that the problem here was what 14:55 happened with the federal government 14:57 they want to blame the states they want 14:58 to focus Fus on New York I understand 15:01 why it's a blue State Etc New York was 15:04 the 29th lowest in nursing home deaths 15:08 most Republican states had many more 15:10 deaths is that per capita or hard 15:12 numbers you're talking about that was uh 15:14 that is prata so per one 15:18 1,000 uh nursing home deaths so state of 15:22 New York for example is had 15:26 70 70 deaths 15:29 per 1,000 in nursing homes in 2020 Ohio 15:34 for example had 97 15:37 deaths uh you don't see Ohio here today 15:41 or any of the other Republican states 15:45 it's just a diversion what happened here 15:48 and the number that matters is 1.2 15:51 million died more than any country on 15:54 the globe how do you explain that the 15:57 United States lost more people than 16:00 China that has four times the 16:02 population and that we know why we lost 16:06 why we why this happened because the 16:09 president denied it for months the CDC 16:12 had no tests there was no 16:15 PPE and we lost three months before the 16:18 president woke up and realized that 16:21 there was a virus and it was too late 16:24 because the infection had spread and 16:26 you're not going to catch up but did you 16:29 have a problem with uh then president 16:31 Trump repeatedly praising president XI 16:33 for the pandemic response in China and 16:36 saying that he was doing a marvelous job 16:38 it the the president's response was 16:41 horrific and the major cause the VIR the 16:46 major cause why the virus spread and why 16:49 it became out of control the gentleman 16:52 sign expired why are we here colleagues 16:55 well between January of 2017 and January 16:58 of 202 21 uh we suffered the most 17:01 Lawless presidency of our lifetime it 17:04 began by Donald Trump saying that he 17:06 would keep his more than 500 businesses 17:08 going that's right and he wouldn't 17:10 divest himself of any of those 17:12 businesses and he would not adopt a rule 17:15 in honor of the emoluments Clause 17:17 consistent with the ement Clause 17:19 declining to take money from Saudi 17:21 Arabia China United Arab Emirates and so 17:24 on and then he proceeded as we've 17:27 learned to collect at least $7.8 million 17:31 from foreign governments and that's 17:32 actually a tiny fraction of what he got 17:35 because that was only for the first two 17:36 years before uh the chairman and his 17:38 wisdom decided to tell mazars to stop 17:41 complying with the judicial court order 17:43 and so we that was all we got was two 17:45 years for four businesses out of more 17:47 than 500 and that was just for 20 17:50 countries out of 195 countries on Earth 17:52 but the lawlessness lasted up until 17:54 yesterday when Donald Trump's lawyer got 17:57 up before the DC Circuit Court of 17:59 Appeals and asserted that President 18:02 Trump or any other president for that 18:03 matter has a right to order 18:07 assassinations of his political 18:09 opponents and not be prosecuted for it 18:13 unless he's impeached and convicted 18:15 first which is completely at odds with 18:17 the text of the Constitution the history 18:19 of the Constitution but he asserted a 18:21 right to assassinate other citizens 18:23 unless first he's impeached or convicted 18:27 which means all you got to do is kill 18:29 your political opponents and then kill 18:31 enough of your political opponents in 18:33 the House and Senate to keep yourself 18:34 from being impeached or convicted my 18:37 friends please don't look at your phones 18:38 and papers right now this goes to the 18:40 heart of the Republic take a position on 18:42 it even if you're going to support it 18:44 take a position on it don't stick your 18:46 heads in the sand Donald Trump is doing 18:48 this to our country he's asserting the 18:51 right of the president to murder people 18:54 and not be prosecuted for it well so why 18:56 are we here well Donald Trump Trump 18:59 insisted to numerous Republicans and in 19:01 public and on Twitter and on Truth 19:04 social that Joe Biden be impeached why 19:07 well because Donald Trump was impeached 19:09 twice the last time for inciting a 19:12 violent Insurrection against his own 19:14 vice president against the Congress of 19:15 the United States to overthrow an 19:18 election and if you don't believe that 19:20 you've got to tell me that if Mike Pence 19:22 had buckled under two weeks and months 19:25 of pressure that Donald Trump would have 19:27 said oh no I was just kidding I'm not 19:29 actually going to seize the presidency 19:31 come on if you believe that you're too 19:32 innocent to be leted out of the house by 19:34 yourself so anyway Donald Trump says I 19:37 don't want to be the only one running 19:38 for president who's been impeached 19:39 impeach Joe Biden figure out something 19:41 we were here for a year you guys did not 19:44 lay a glove on Joe Biden you don't have 19:47 a single credible piece of evidence not 19:50 one iota showing any crime by Joe Biden 19:54 as Mr Lynch says uh even your Witnesses 19:57 came up and said they didn't see it at 19:59 the one hearing that you had on 20:01 impeachment so why are we here well we can't go after Joe Biden he's clean let's go after Hunter Biden let's go get him and that's why I'm so suspicious of where we are today Mr chairman because I heard you numerous times say come before the committee come and testify before the world come and tell everybody what happened and he took you up on it he said yes and I said finally we'll get to hear from Hunter Biden we'll get to answer hear answers to all those questions Fallon post but then you wouldn't take yes for an answer you said no we want to go to a back room and do it there and then we will leak out uh you know appropriate details which of course we have seen has allowed for radical distortions of people's testimony before this uh committee you have not released the vast majority of transcribed interviews that have been in the back room so we can leak out specific details so that's not right that's why we have questions about it but but I'm with Miss mace let's bring 21:00 them all in let's bring in all the Republicans who still haven't testified about what they know about what on January 6 and let's bring Hunter Biden and let's do that all together I I'd be for that and thank you for yielding Mr Lee and I yield back chair recognizes Mr Langworthy for five minutes one of the uh one of our colleagues said that uh there was Trump derangement syndrome and of course Trump derangement begins with Donald Trump himself he thinks he has a legal right to assassinate US citizens um he thinks he can grab women by their genitals although that's not the word that he used uh he's he said that if Joe Biden is reelected president there will be World War II um he is obviously deranged and disoriented but the real Trump derangement syndrome that I see is those people who cannot break from Donald Trump after he's proven himself to be completely and totally Unworthy of your support because I'm looking at talented gifted people on the other side of the aisle the ones who have not left 22:01 Congress in frustration or because they've broken with Donald Trump and clashed with him but I'm still looking at people who have their wits about them I think but you're acting like cult members like you're sleeping on the basement of a cult listening to tapes all night and I beg you to get over your Trump derangement syndrome thank you very much for yielding Miss Brown

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