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Jamie Raskin: “It is an after-the-fact rationalization. It is a pretext.”

On the recordDecember 16, 2019
It is an after-the-fact rationalization. It is a pretext.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin describes the rationale for Trump's actions as insincere.

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