Jamie Raskin actually said...

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.

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Jamie Raskin asserts that Trump's actions and those of his entourage constitute crimes.

06/13/2022

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