Jamie Raskin sinks to new low by vowing vengeance – Latest News
Putting partisan politics far above patriotism (if he has any), prime Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin is now outright threatening vengeance on overseas leaders who work with the Trump administration.
Yes, he washes it by rhetoric about combating “authoritarianism in our country,” however that’s merely cowl for goonish threats.
Raskin (D-Md.) issued it on the “Pod Save America” podcast, after progressive host Tommy Vietor cited (absolutely left-wing) Latin America specialists as urging Democrats to warn off “any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks a press convention on federal workforce rights outdoors the U.S. Capitol on March 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Getty Images
Reality test: No one is proposing any “extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”
Democrats keep making an attempt to confuse people into considering Team Trump is doing that, as cowl for his or her efforts to combat the administration’s deportations of unlawful migrants — which isn’t remotely authoritarian.
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Naturally, Raskin ran with Vietor’s implied level, particularly pointing to El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as somebody Dems “are not going to look kindly upon” “when we come back to power — and we will.”
His criticism is that Bukele refuses to ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia (an El Salvador citizen) back to the United States.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported below suspicion of being in MS-13. by way of REUTERS
President Donald Trump holds a doc with notes about Kilmar Abrego Garcia as he speaks with reporters within the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington. AP
Abrego has by no means had any legal proper to be right here, although the Trumpies erred in sending him home with out clearing an outdated 2019 order that stated he might be deported, however not to El Salvador as a result of he claimed a gang there was gunning for him.
(Bukele has eviscerated all of the Salvadoran gangs, infuriating US “Latin American experts” of the type Vietor absolutely depends on.)
Raskin’s additionally plainly peeved that Bukele is aiding the Trump “deport violent-criminal illegal migrants” efforts, however that’s nonetheless no cause to problem threats to a overseas prez.
Republicans have by no means punished overseas leaders who helped President Barack Obama in his initiatives; it’s insane to drag different international locations into our home disputes.
Raskin attire it up together with his noise about “the descent into fascism in America,” however he’s the one destroying nonpartisan norms of our politics.
