Jamie Raskin

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President Trump violated his oath to the American people.

The facts are clear, the danger to our democracy is clear, and our duty is clear.

There is a constitutional remedy for a President who undermines our national security and our elections, who puts his own interests before those of the country. That remedy is impeachment.

In abusing his office in this manner, and in obstructing the investigation that followed, we know that President Trump has put himself before his country.

President Zelensky is sensitive about Ukraine being taken seriously.

The most important thing you can bring to work with you every day is your conscience.

I count 17 honorable public servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the President.

The Founders were very clear in spelling out what they saw to be the greatest abuses that would raise the most concerns for our Nation.

President Zelensky is a hope. He is doing it the right way.

Ukraine was pressured then and still is pressured.

The aid was only released after President Trump got caught doing the scheme.

The evidence is overwhelming that the President abused his power by pressuring Ukraine and its new President to investigate a political opponent.

The remedy they imposed was that if a President commits a grave offense, a high crime or misdemeanor, this body has the power to impeach that President.

It is a requirement that the President be a person who does not abuse his power.

And he is trying to make our country more like Russia.

But in the United States a lot of people are not afraid, even though President Trump has tried to intimidate or silence them.

But if Donald Trump misjudged the American character, the Framers of our Constitution did not.

Why is impeachment in the Constitution? Well, the Framers feared a President might corrupt our elections by dragging foreign powers into our politics in order to promote the personal political ambitions of the President above the rule of…

And he devoted his career to the idea that people must speak truth to power when power becomes a clear and present danger to democracy and to the people.

A statement by House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings for the record submitted by the Honorable Jamie Raskin, a Representative in Congress from Maryland.

All I will observe is that the gentleman from New York oddly begins by attacking a resolution for being a recycled version of language we have already adopted on a massive bipartisan basis in the House. Then he closes by attacking us for…

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.

If he's right and we accept this radical claim that he can do whatever he wants, all future Presidents seeking reelection will be able to bring foreign governments into our campaigns to target their rivals and to spread propaganda.