Trump FREAKS OUT over END OF HIS TERM!!!

Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin and. the ranking member of the House. Judiciary Committee is responding to. Donald Trump's latest midnight threats. Donald Trump was posting all night that. Jamie Raskin, the Democratic. Congressman, needs to be expelled. Donald Trump was literally seething with. rage and sweating out his fear. He was. saying that Jamie Raskin's a loser in. life who worked endlessly during my. first term to impeach me. And he goes, "We need to expel the bum. Congress can.

ever be great with people like this.". And he was reposting Mark Levin who said. the house should trigger the expulsion. process against Jamie Raskin. He's. leading a plot to impeach the president. If the Democrats take the house, he led. the prior two impeachments against the. president. He's pushed for his. resignation in the past. Also was. involved in twisting the 14th Amendment. to ban candidate Trump from the balance. Well, well, well, they're like, "Invoke. Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2, and.

expel Jamie Raskin." I want to bring in. Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin to. respond to Donald Trump's latest threats. because it certainly seems that. Congressman Raskin's living rent-free in. Donald Trump's head. I also want to. speak to Congressman Raskin about some. of his major pieces of legislation to. block Donald Trump's $1.8 billion slush. fund as well as Donald Trump's attempt. to basically give himself a super pardon. from all of his past tax evasion and any.

other conduct relating to taxes or any. other misconduct. That was one of the. things that was put in the settlement. that Donald Trump made with himself. Let's bring in Democratic Congressman. Jamie Raskin. Congressman Raskin, it's. great to see you. And so, >> to be with you. >> Donald Trump's been posting a lot about. you. He's been posting reposts of Mark. Levin talking a lot of. stuff about you saying you need to be. expelled and saying that, you know, they're terrified that when Democrats.

take over the house, you'll be leading a. third impeachment against him. So, they. got to get rid of you now. And I mean, he's posting it late at night, so you're. clearly living rent-free in his mind. I. guess before we get into some of the. other pieces of legislation that you're. pushing forward, what's your immediate. response to kind of Trump's constant. posts about saying you need to be. expelled from the house? >> Well, um it it tells me we had a very. fine week in terms of. uh stopping his uh absurd and lawless.

$1.776 billion political slush fund, uh which we've been working on in the. Judiciary Committee. And it tells me we. had a great week in terms of exposing. their utterly ridiculous and devious. attack on the Southern Poverty Law. Center. So, um. his attack on me seemed to be kind of. coming out of the blue. We don't quite. know exactly what triggered him, but it. was a a rough week for uh the president. in the Judiciary Committee. And so, I.

don't know, maybe he's got Raskin. Derangement Syndrome or something. Um. but. uh. the the bottom line is we're doing our. job. We're going to get back to work. We're on the front lines of this. struggle against corruption and. authoritarianism. And we're not going to. be deterred by that. This is not middle. school where he thinks he can expel. someone for questioning his uh. authority. And look, we're in the middle. of a war that he started illegally and. unconstitutionally. And uh there are a.

lot of dead Americans and a lot more. dead Iranians. And he should really be. focused on that. These are very serious. times. And so, um I'm going to try not. to take the bait as tempting as it is to. um. go back and forth. I will just say. though um in uh. you know, his attacking me on the the. stuff and what he describes as a as a. loser cause. He was impeached by the. House of Representatives in. right after the insurrection in 2021 in.

January 2021 on the 13th, and it was a. vote of 232 to 197, and all of the. Democrats and 10 Republicans joined us. And so, when we went over to the Senate. to prosecute the case, and I was the. lead impeachment manager, he may be recalling now that it was a 57. to 43 vote to convict him. Now, I know. he's proud of that because that fell. just short of the 2/3 requirement, but.

most presidents of the United States. would not be proud of the fact that they. have 50% of the presidential. impeachments in history, and 57% of the. US Senate voted to say that he had. incited a violent insurrection against. our Constitution. >> Yeah, it's a good point. I don't think. people remember how close he actually. was to being convicted as well. And but. for some of the people, by the way, who. he now is a who he now attacks, I mean, there could have been a a a conviction. there in the Senate. Now, talk to us. about your legislation that you're.

pushing forward on the slush fund for. the insurrectionists cuz one of the. things that I find fascinating is this. macro picture that gives you insight. into, I think, Donald Trump's entire. life as a con artist and a scammer, which is he doesn't want to reduce. anything to writing, even when he's. cornered. He always wants to do a trust. me, bro, I got this. And then he always. tries to wiggle out of it and say, because his word is meaningless. I mean, we see it in Iran where it's like, okay, reduce it to writing. Make the deal. Stop saying you have concepts of.

frameworks of concepts of frameworks. Even Judge Brinkema was speaking to the. DOJ lawyer on the slush fund case, and. she was saying to the DOJ lawyer, "Look, okay, I hear you. You're saying to me. that you're going to stop this slush. fund. So, why aren't you putting it in. writing?" And the DOJ lawyer goes, "Uh. yeah, I don't know." And Judge Brinkema. is like, "Don't you find it weird that. you don't know that? And you This is a. pretty big case, and you're saying you. don't know why you don't want to put. that in writing. Very suspicious.". >> I mean, the day after Todd Blanche.

appeared in the Republican caucus before. an outraged, scandalized membership, and. he promised them it was going nowhere. Uh we're not moving forward, and so on. The very next day, Donald Trump said, "I. love the idea. We're going forward. We're going to make this happen." and so. on. So, you can't trust these people. even when they do commit it to writing, but at least have the decency to commit. it to writing. And don't think we're. going to, you know, fall for all of. these verbal disclaimers of interest in. proceeding. In any event, we are the.

Article 1 branch of government in. Congress. We appropriate money. It's up. to us at this point to both completely. defund their [clears throat] fraudulent. uh settlement and their. anti-weaponization fund, but also to a. firmative affirmatively declare that no. federal taxpayer dollars should go to. the purposes of paying the. insurrectionists, the Proud Boys, and. the Oath Keepers. For one thing, it's. unconstitutional. If you read Section 4. of the 14th Amendment, it says that no. money may be appropriated for the.

purposes of paying for insurrection. against the Union. And of course, that. came out of the Civil War period. So, that's an emphatic, categorical point. Um but also, we're saying the president. should not be able to make a deal with. himself. Uh this is basically Trump. versus Trump, and guess who wins in. litigation like that? Um this is a. totally fraudulent, collusive. litigation, and totally fraudulent, collusive settlement, which is why the. judge in Florida yanked the whole thing. back. They had tried to dismiss the.

case, and she said, "No way. I think. this is a fraud on the court, and it's. going to be a fraud on the country.". Now, we got two different federal. federal courts trying to throw the. brakes on it. And Judge Brinkema. uh it said there shall be no money going. out of this fund." And we're going to. try to make the same thing happen by. passing a robust bipartisan legislation. in Congress that we hope a lots of. Republicans will join us on saying that. the president should not be allowed to. settle any cases with himself, for his.

family, or for his cabinet members, or. for his political appointees. If they. think they've got a real case that can. sustain judicial scrutiny and they want. to go to court, fine. Let them go to. court, but we cannot allow them to. settle their own cases against. themselves. And we saw what happened. with Michael Flynn. They did that with. Michael Flynn. Michael Flynn actually. lost his case about selective. prosecution or malicious prosecution. He. lost it, and then still they gave him. $1.25 million. just as a handoff from the Department of.

Justice. And the same thing with Carter. Page, who got $1.25 million. Enrique. Tarrio is out there saying, "I don't. need the anti-weaponization fund. I'm. going to get my money from the judgment. fund." So, we need to cut off that. spigot immediately in Congress. >> The fact that he did this super pardon. settlement with himself with the IRS, um, waving all past tax liability, to me. that was one of the main things that he. was after anyway because, you know, he's. been railing about these audits for a.

long time. What I worry is I know people. have talked about the number as $100. million. that it potentially is waving in terms. of what the IRS was looking at. But as I. read that waiver, in California we'd. call it a 1542 waiver, any and all. conduct, you know, that predates it. So, what I worry too is all of these quid. pro quo deals he's been doing with the. UAE and the crypto and all of this stuff. now where he would normally have to pay. capital gains or whatever whatever the. whatever would be, he's not going to pay.

those cuz the way I read the language, you could do a look back of all tax. liability that predates it. and knowing. him, why wouldn't he claim all of the. billions of dollars that he's made. during these first two years in office? He doesn't have to pay taxes on that. stuff, and so it's a waiver of that. So, to me, the number that he could be. waving, just do take the best case. scenario, capital gains classification, 20 whatever, 20, 25%.

If he made $2 billion, we could be. talking about $600 million in taxes that. he's not going to pay. >> Yeah, but he's made $4 billion at least, so it's double that amount. I mean, we're talking about billions of dollars. in taxes he's escaping. And by the way, I thank you for reading it, because as. you saw, it's not just taxes. This. nullifies any liability for the. president, his family, and his. businesses for any criminal, civil, or. tax violation, or any other. administrative law violation. So, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, bribery,

embezzlement, insider trading, as you. say, um other uh. violations of the domestic emoluments. clause, he's not allowed to take any. money from the federal government, but. if he took that $1.8 billion slush fund, that's money that's taxable to him, but. they're just trying to nullify all of it. and wipe the slate clean. And what's. interesting about it is that none of. that has anything to do with what his. original case was about. His original. case was trying to sue the federal. government because a private third-party.

government contractor had leaked. information about thousands of people's. tax returns, including Trump's, and. everybody has lost their case in trying. to get paid for that. Now, the guy who. did that, he obviously should not have. done that, Charles Littlejohn, is in. jail. He's in federal prison for 5. years, but there's no private right of. action against it, and Todd Blanche, despite the fact that the Department of. Justice had been winning on all of those. cases, refused to advance a very clear. motion to dismiss on that basis. And he.

also refused to advance a motion to. dismiss on the basis that the statute of. limitations had run as all the IRS. lawyers were saying this was many months. too late after the expiration of statute. of limitations. Todd Blanche was not. acting as a lawyer as you say for the. American people or for the government. He was acting as a lawyer as always for. Donald Trump. He just happens to be. getting his salary paid by the US. government. >> Yeah, Trump was the president when the. data leak took place too. It would be. like the head of Microsoft suing.

Microsoft for a data leak of Microsoft. stuff while you were the CEO and then. paying yourself $10 million. and settling it for yourself and not. settling it. It's the It's the most. deranged that Before we go though, Congressman, I want to talk to you about. the National Democracy Summer Program. I. know this is a big deal and very. important to you. What should our. audience know about that? >> So, we need a whole new generation of. Democratic organizers and leaders across. the country and our program recruits. them in every state in the union. Last.

summer, we had more than a thousand. We're hoping this summer we'll have more. than 2,500 of them. working in. house races and Senate races, but we. start off. the day with. lectures. We have a whole curriculum on. the fight for democracy and freedom in. America historically and the fight for. democracy and freedom today. So, we have. Tim Snyder, we have Heather Cox. Richardson, we've got Bennie Thompson, we got. Maxwell Frost who's the co-chair of the. program with me and we talk about the.

the fights for voting rights and. democracy and women's reproductive. freedom and so on that we have been. through and then we have people like. Marc Elias come in and talk about the. fight for the right to vote today, our. struggle against the Roberts Court and. the racist gerrymandering of our. congressional districts and their. dismantling of majority African American. districts throughout the South. And then. these young people are spending the rest. of their days knocking on doors, canvassing, registering voters, working.

for. uh the Democratic tidal wave that we. need in order to cleanse all of the. corruption and authoritarianism, and get. America back on track. >> Congressman Raskin, thanks for all. you're doing. We appreciate you. Come. back soon. >> See you real soon. Thanks for everything. you guys are doing. >> Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. >> Want to stay plugged in? Become a. subscriber for Substack [music] at. midasplus.com. You'll get daily recaps. from Ron Filipkowski, ad-free episodes.

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