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Jamie Raskin: “We have just set a new precedent there, a new standard, that the President can go and try to recruit foreign governments…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2019
We have just set a new precedent there, a new standard, that the President can go and try to recruit foreign governments to get in our campaign by threatening, announcing, and engaging in criminal investigations of their political opponents.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin discusses the dangerous precedent set by Trump's actions regarding foreign interference.

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