Rep. Jamie Raskin argued the 2022 midterm election is about defeating “authoritarian forces” aligned with Donald Trump.
Regarding Special Counsel Hur’s testimony on the Biden documents probe, Raskin said Hur seemed to go beyond proper prosecutorial conduct with hypothetical speculation and sending a political message to Republicans though no charges were brought.
Raskin said, “All of that hypothetical speculation and second-guessing of his own decision really does seem to veer outside the proper boundaries of prosecutorial conduct.”
Raskin said President Biden has framed the election as defending democracy and freedom from fascism, noting it is a “memory test” for America – whether it remembers totalitarianism – not a test of Biden’s memory.
He said, “It does seem as if he was bending over backward to send a political message to his allies in the Republican Party that although there weren’t grounds to go forward for criminal prosecution, he was going to throw them a bone.”
He highlighted authoritarian leaders like Orban meeting recently at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump’s reported comment on not giving money to Ukraine to resist Putin’s “filthy imperialism” and invasion, as examples of the authoritarian forces and stakes of the election.
Raskin said, “I think that President Biden just wiped all of that stuff out. He is framed what this election and what this administration is about. It’s about defending democracy and freedom. And as I said today, it is a memory test, but it’s not a memory test for President Biden. It’s a memory test for America.”
“Do we remember Fascism? Do we remember Nazism and Communism and Totalitarianism? Do we know what we’re up against in terms of the authoritarian forces that have rallied around Donald Trump, including Victor Orban, who had a slumber party at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend? He came out pronouncing how pleased he was that Donald Trump had said he would not give one penny to the people of Ukraine, resisting Orban’s friend Vladimir Putin’s filthy imperialism, bloody invasion, and war against the people of Ukraine. That’s what the election is about. That’s the real memory test.”
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