Yes, these are crimes. What you need for crime is the fancy Latin word mens rea, which means intention. And given that Donald Trump and his whole entourage understood that the big lie was a big lie, they had a criminal state of mind. They had a criminal intention.
Jamie Raskin asserts that Trump's actions and those of his entourage constitute crimes.
Share
More from Jamie Raskin
We need a DOJ committed to the rule of law, not the corrupt rule of a kleptocrat.
Congress has a responsibility to confront all this corruption directly – to expose it and take all steps necessary to crush it as quickly as possible.
Other voices in this conversation
