Rep. Jamie Raskin, a democrat, and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Ranking Member has blasted Donald Trump on his “sexual assault, 91 felony criminal charges.” Raskin denounced any such claim as “abuse of power” by the current president Joe Biden.
House Republicans have asked for an impeachment inquiry although there’s enough proof that there is “no evidence” of wrongdoing by President Biden. Raskin wrote a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) about the demand for records.
Last month, at the conclusion of the first hearing on the impeachment inquiry declared by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, you announced that you and Chairman Jim Jordan were issuing three subpoenas to obtain bank records for Hunter Biden, James Biden, Eric Schwerin, and their business entities.
These subpoenas seek a decade’s worth of personal financial information of private citizens and are completely untethered to any plausible theory of an impeachable offense. Your decision to issue a blanket demand for “all financial records” from 2014 to the present, without any effort to define or tailor the request, makes obvious that these subpoenas are nothing but a fishing expedition many miles away from the legislative shore and thus an egregious abuse of this Committee’s authority.
This continuing random search for content approach is profoundly troubling, especially in light of your blatant misrepresentations about the contents of these bank records and willingness to use this investigation to promote salacious and baseless accusations against the President’s children and grandchildren.
All of these actions are, in your words distantly spoken before the start of this Congress, “very counter to a credible investigation.
Jamie Raskin explains the Republican chaos in the House, "Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have set the stage for what we're living through now, which is no fidelity to the constitution, no commitment to democracy, but rule or ruin." pic.twitter.com/cP3EL3bRym
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 19, 2023
Donald Trump’s problems are far from over as situations are against him
Raskin has talked about Comer’s committee and their own prior statements and committee precedents. It’s interesting to see how details have emerged about Donald Trump and his doings which are contrary to what Comer tried to portray.
The sweeping overbreadth of these subpoenas makes clear their true purpose: to continue this baseless and voyeuristic fishing expedition; heckle the President with distortions and cherry-picked facts; distract from Donald Trump’s four criminal indictments on 91 different felony criminal charges and recent judgments that he sexually assaulted a woman in New York and fraudulently inflated the value of his businesses; and attempt to boost Mr. Trump’s prospects for election in 2024. These subpoenas represent a stunning abuse of the Committee’s subpoena authority and create a deeply troubling precedent of using the power of the gavel to demand unfettered access to private citizens’ irrelevant financial records.
According to Mediaite, there’s enough information that the actions done by Trump were not in line with the ethics. It needs to be seen if this is going to be the case going forward or if Trump will be penalized for his actions.
Well, at least he wasn't screaming. Take it for what it's worth. Now, take the law breakers off of the Hill and silence Donald Trump. We voted him out. He has no right to chime in.
— Kat Hart (@realtybytesSRQ) October 25, 2023
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