Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday dismantled former President Donald Trump’s 14-page response to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating last year’s deadly U.S. Capitol riot.
Raskin, a member of the committee, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that Trump was already “playing his silly games” in the written reply from earlier that day.
“I mean, that letter, including the use of the royal ‘we,’ which was pretty jarring, is just an outrageous distraction from the reality to the extent that there’s anything substance or substantive there,” Raskin said.
The U.S. representative reality-checked Trump over his remark that conservatives “feel” the 2020 election was rigged, saying that so-called MAGA Republicans have been unable to pinpoint how the vote was supposedly stolen. Such claims about a rigged election had prompted the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington.
“They can’t say. They just have a feeling. And in fact, Trump uses that too in this enormously revealing letter, where he says lots of people ‘feel’ that there was fraud,” he added.
“I’m sorry. Your feelings, Mr. Snowflake, cannot dictate the course of the future of the republic. No, your feelings cannot dictate our elections.”