Trump demands House expel Jamie Raskin

    by Flint: Donald Trump

    President Trump is calling on the House to expel Representative Jamie Raskin. He said, "If Biden didn't give him a pardon, he'd be in jail right now!" and added, "Something should be done about people like this who do bad things, but always come up on the short end.

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    He's trying to militarize our society, intimidate its political opponents. The whole idea of picking cities based on their partisan leadership is absurd. I mean, there are lots of Republican cities in town struggling with crime. Everybody is across the country, always. Crime has always been part of our history. And yet crime is down. In D.C., for example, it's at a 30-year low. It's down in Baltimore. It's down in Chicago. But the point is that in our system of federalism, the different branches of government and the different departments of government are supposed to work together. If Donald Trump thinks he's got some great ideas for Chicago or Miami or Houston, Texas or whatever, he should call a summit for the White House and say, hey, here's some ideas where the feds can work together with states and localities, not have a series of rolling National Guard invasions of people's cities.