Jamie Raskin Promises Report On Trump Emoluments

I think CREW has already done most of the hard work for them, but I’m glad to see Democrats hammering away at Republicans for their hypocrisy when it comes to their attacks on Hunter Biden while ignoring all the dirty dealings the Trumps did while he was in office.

Republicans have been willing to admit that maybe… just maybe Trump’s son-in-law may have “crossed the line of ethics” when it comes to his business dealings, but they’ve largely turned a blind eye to the fact that the Trumps were one of the most corrupt administrations in history that just blatantly thumbed their noses when it comes to profiting from their businesses that they refused to separate themselves from, that would have ended the political careers of most politicians during a time when most of the Republican party and their voters haven’t obviously lost their minds.

Rep. Jamie Raskin made an appearance on ABC’s This Week, and while discussing the Republican freakout over the appointment of a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case, Raskin hit back at the GOP hypocrisy and told viewers what we may see next:

KARL: So, I want to ask you more about the – some of the stuff that the Republicans have been highlighting regarding Hunter Biden. You know, we’ve seen — we saw Donald – you know, we saw Joe Biden at one point say that Hunter Biden had no dealings, got no money from China. We now see from hunter’s own words that that’s not true. Does – are – does any of this raise concerns for you, you know, the money from Ukraine, the money from China, the money from Russia? Does any of this, you know –

RASKIN: Well, look –

KARL: Whether or not it’s criminal, whether or not it warrants special counsel status, are you concerned by the — about this stuff?

RASKIN: Here’s what I’m concerned about. During the Trump administration, we saw the development of a completely new public philosophy, which is that government is not an instrument of the common good in the public interest. Government is an instrument for private self-enrichment, for the guy who gets in, for his family, for his private businesses. And that’s a model that we’re seeing all over the world now that that’s a —

KARL: But you don’t approve of that model, obviously.

RASKIN: I do not.

KARL: You denounced that model of (ph) Donald Trump.

RASKIN: That’s what Putin is doing.

KARL: Yes.

RASKIN: That — you know, that’s what Orban is doing. That’s what Marcos is doing. That’s what El-Sisi’s doing. That’s what president –

KARL: I mean it’s been going on since the dawn of mankind, this –(CROSSTALK)

RASKIN: Well, but it’s new for America that somebody would get in and basically just say, you know, everything is corrupt and I’m just as corrupt as the next guy, and I’m going to take money, as Trump did, from China, from Saudi Arabia, from the United Arab Emirates.

I mean, look, you know, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, pocketed a cool $2 billion —

KARL: From Saudi Arabia.

RASKIN: From Saudi Arabia, in a corporation he –

KARL: And he had the Saudi – and he had the Saudi portfolio in the White House.

RASKIN: Yes.

KARL: But what about Hunter?

RASKIN: So – but – so, I am concerned about it. And I’m concerned not just about public officials like Donald Trump and Jared Kushner doing it, but even family members who water ski along for the ride. And I have been, you know, begging my colleague, Chairman Comer, for us to do a serious analysis of what the laws should be about money-making by people —

KARL: And you would take part in a serious investigation on –(CROSSTALK)

RASKIN: Yes, of course, we would. And – and we’re going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments, millions of dollars we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses, through business deals, when he was president and that his family got. But they’ve not laid a glove on Joe Biden as president. They haven’t been able to show any criminal corruption on his part. What they’ve got is Hunter Biden. And we’ve all seen clear that this guy was addicted to drugs and did a lot of really unlawful and wrong things. And we have said, let the justice system run its course. They’re not saying that about Donald Trump. Any time Donald Trump actually gets indicted, after a grand jury has already determined that there’s probable cause –

KARL: They attack the prosecutors, they attack the judge.

RASKIN: They attack the prosecutors. They attack the judges.

KARL: Right.

RASKIN: They attack the system.

KARL: We’re –

RASKIN: For them, Donald Trump could never be guilty of anything.

It’s a cult, so of course they refuse to believe Dear Leader has ever done anything wrong. Dems should have gone on offense with the Trumps and their grifing a long time ago. Better late than never I guess.