"He could spend the remaining days of his misanthropic life behind bars, presumably with Secret Service agents." I'm very serious about him facing the consequences and paying for the cost of his action," Raskin said. "There's just deep culpability from the very beginning in everything that Donald Trump did. He added that Trump could spend the rest of the life in prison if he's convicted on January 6 charges. "And it's just wrong to send hundreds of foot soldiers to jail and leave the very clear kingpin unprosecuted." "I do think it's very, very important that we establish that it's not just foot soldiers, but kingpins who are prosecuted," Raskin said. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images Raskin said in a podcast released Saturday that he believes Trump will be indicted on January 6 charges following the release of the report into the Capitol riot last week. The Democratic lawmaker said he "really would be surprised" if Attorney General Merrick Garland did not indict Trump for his alleged role in the riot, adding that "it's so clear" that the ex-president intended to "interfere" with the election certification.įormer President Donald Trump is seen alongside an inset of Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat. Raskin reflected about the significance of the report during an appearance on Yahoo! News' Skullduggery podcast Saturday. The panel last week referred Trump on four criminal charges to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and released a report into their findings, concluding the months-long probe and adding pressure to the former president, who is facing several other investigations. The panel spent months probing Trump's role in the insurrection, which saw a mob of Trump supporters, allegedly motivated by his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud, violently protest in a failed attempt to force Congress to block the certification of President Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, served on the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Former President Donald Trump will likely be indicted and spend the rest of his life "behind bars," Representative Jamie Raskin said Saturday.
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