Our Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), in his opening statement at the clown show "impeachment inquiry" today:
...To delay justice, Donald Trump would cut off paychecks to a couple million service members and federal workers, and furlough more than a million workers and pay them later for having not worked. They would halt food assistance to millions of moms and kids, and keep NIH, in my district, from enrolling any more patients in life and death clinical research trials.
Trump's convinced that if we shut the government down, his four criminal prosecutions on 91 different charges will be defunded and delayed long enough to keep him from having to go before a jury of his peers before the 2024 election. And like flying monkeys on a mission for the Wicked Witch of the West, Trump's followers in the House now carry messages out to the world: Shut down the government. Shut down the prosecutions...
With a government shutdown looming, these flying monkeys are wasting the public's money and time running cover and trying to even scores for their cult leader. Raskin has it exactly right, as usual.
(Photo: Rep. Raskin, with MAGAt meathead Republican Rep. Comer to his left, uses Republicans' words to good effect / AFP via Getty Images)
