Richard Nixon sent burglars to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, but President Trump just made a direct phone call to the President of a foreign country and sought his intervention in an American election.
Raskin draws parallels between Nixon's actions and Trump's call for foreign interference.
Share
More from Jamie Raskin
The American people are apparently paying for Donald Trump to create desperate preelection propaganda.
This is a naked power grab by a historically unpopular president—who himself regularly votes by mail—to inject confusion and chaos into our elections in a last-ditch effort to keep his party in power.
It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
Yesterday’s consultation reinforces our sense that the Administration has turned America’s traditional refugee program into a whites-only airplane ride for South African Afrikaners into Trump’s America.
Other voices in this conversation
