In a very unintentionally funny moment that came when far-left Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared on MSNBC’s “Deadline” with host Nicolle Wallace, the woke congressman went berserk and declared that President Donald Trump has managed to turn the United States into a “gangster state.” The incident happened on Monday, June 16.
Particularly at issue, in Raskin’s view, was President Trump’s desire to accept the $400 million presidential jet offered to the White House by Qatar as a temporary replacement for Air Force One, which is getting long in the tooth as Boeing struggles to make the successor aircraft for the president.
Raskin also appeared quite angry that President Trump has changed his mind on the cryptocurrency sphere and gotten involved in the crypto sphere, bizarrely insisting, with no evidence to support his point, that the president’s involvement will mean vast amounts of corruption from foreign powers and princes.
In any case, kicking off his hysteric rant, Raskin declared that the White House getting a gift from Qatar is unconstitutional, snapping, “There’s the $400 million bribe force, one jet from Qatar, completely brazen, totally in violation of the Constitution if you don’t come to Congress first.”
Continuing, the woke representative made his unverified, unsuported claim about Trump’s crypto projects being the route to corruption, saying, “There’s also the fact that Donald Trump, who denounced crypto as just saturated with criminality, now has completely embraced it and created his own crypto meme coin, which is just this gaping open barn door for every anonymous foreign state dictator, king, prince, mafia ring or pardon seeker to put money directly into Donald Trump’s pockets.”
Still not done with even that ridiculous point, Raskin then insisted that the corruption, which he still didn’t even cite any evidence of, is now completely out in the open. He declared to Wallace, “And so, you know, whatever kind of varnish they had from the first administration is completely off.”
Yet angrier, Raskin then freaked out over the idea that the Trump Administration cared about working on business deals for America while in the Middle East, as if more business with partners in the region is bad for America. He said, “Now they’re not even pretending to do anything else. I mean, their first foreign trip was back to Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, not for any, you know, peace seeking purposes or no foreign policy agenda, it was a bunch of business deals. It was a business trip.”
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Changing tracks, Raskin then ridiculously asserted that corruption and democracy are opposites, ignoring the massive amount of proven and suspected Congressional corruption in the DC Swamp. He said, “So, look, corruption is the opposite of democracy. Democracy is the system which advances the idea that every single person matters and we all rise together.”
Concluding, the woke congressman made his ridiculous “gangster state” claim, saying, “The opposite of that is a corrupt, monarchical or dictatorial system, where you have a tiny group in society that uses public resources and private resources just to benefit themselves. And that’s what we’ve got now. It’s a gangster state.”
Watch Raskin here:
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