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Jamie Raskin: “Well, generally, we're going to see what Donald Trump was doing and what he was not doing during that 187-minute fateful…”

On the recordJuly 19, 2022
Well, generally, we're going to see what Donald Trump was doing and what he was not doing during that 187-minute fateful period of American history. He continued to exhort and inflame and incite the crowd.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin discusses the upcoming testimonies and what they reveal about Trump's actions during the Capitol riot.

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