BREAKING: AMEN! Rep. Jamie Raskin says that future historians will say that this "miserable period" really started when MAGA voters chose to ignore all of the women that Trump sexually harassed and abused.
Our country went off the cliff after that...
"Her mother sided with the rapist stepfather and Vivek Ramaswamy made an ad about it. JD Vance didn't hesitate or flinch in the same news cycle that it comes out," MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace said, setting the stage for the discussion. "He doubles down. He said, run the ad harder, run the ad longer, put more money behind it. Trump said the same. What does it say about the culture around these men?"
Ramaswamy's vile ad featured the mother of his Democratic opponent Amy Acton urging voters to reject her daughter at the ballot box. He dumped millions into the ad, despite the fact that Acton's mother previously sided with Acton's stepfather, who raped her. Vivek and Vance's defense of the ad has been disgusting, and proves that these Republican men view women as nothing more than disposable objects.
"Well, it's completely contaminated and toxic, and you know, when historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all of those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump," said Raskin.
"But he got elected even after he was adjudicated civilly responsible for sexually penetrating and attacking E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in a department store in New York City," he continued. "And there are there are reports in the report that we just released, the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.
"There are accounts by specific survivors and victims which very much resemble this, that is at a kind of public event or public place, cornering someone in something like a dressing room or a hotel room and then sexually attacking them," said Raskin. "And that's precisely what Beatrice Keul says in her account of what took place back then."
A new report released by Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee revealed yesterday that former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul alleged that Trump raped her at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1993. Not only that, but Jeffrey Epstein introduced himself to her as Trump's best friend and offered to arrange for her to travel to Mar-a-Lago. The report states that the two predators used the "Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant" as a "hunting ground" to prey on young women and girls.
The new allegation, as horrifying as it is, is unfortunately unsurprising. We have long known that Trump is an unrepentant rapist in addition to being a pedophile. His voters chose to ignore those facts because they were so excited by his racist rhetoric and cruelty. Now, they're paying the price because (surprise, surprise!), the sociopathic, serial rapist isn't actually interested in improving the lives of average Americans. He's getting richer while the country burns.
"So look, the evidence is certainly enough to justify an investigation," said Raskin of Keul's accusation. "It's overwhelmingly likely it's enough to justify going to a grand jury to see if a grand jury agrees. But it certainly is not reconcilable in any way with sweeping the whole matter under the rug. And I just want to thank these survivors, these victims of these terrible events when they were mostly girls. Some of them were young women, but mostly they were girls. They were minors."
"For coming forward and hanging tough and saying this really happened and the country's got to pay attention to it," he went on. "So my responsibility is the ranking member in the House Judiciary Committee and our responsibility as Democrats on the Judiciary Committee is to make certain that the Department of Justice is not able to sweep this under the rug."
"And we also show evidence in this report about how the White House was actually calling all the shots and was essentially dictating or editing the statement that there was nothing to see here and that there was no basis for further investigation," added Raskin. "And it's just scandalous that that took place. In fact, the White House had to order them to use Department of Justice and FBI letterhead because they didn't want to. Nobody wanted to be associated with this extraordinary act of cover up in the service of Donald Trump and against the service of justice and the rule of law."
