Raskin Mocks Trump Call To Free J6 ‘Hostages’: Why Does He Want to Pardon Antifa Fighters?
Lawmaker also called it a 'major insult and affront to families with actual hostages being held by Hamas'
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., got a laugh out of Donald Trump calling for the release of criminals imprisoned for Jan. 6 violence, whom Trump has dubbed "hostages."
"Why would he want to pardon all these antifa fighters?" Raskin asked Jen Pskai in an Sunday interview on MSNBC as he mocked a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory that the FBI and antifa instigated Jan. 6 violence.
Trump even claimed at an Iowa rally Saturday: "There was antifa and there was FBI ... leading the charge" into the Capitol on Jan. 6.
An early Republican theory claimed Jan. 6 was a "normal tourist visit."
Raskin pointed out that "hundreds and hundreds" of Capitol surveillance videos carefully examined and released by the Republicans have failed to come up with a "single shot" of any FBI agent or antifa fighter.
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Raskin also attacked Trump for using the term "hostages" for violent criminals, calling it a "major insult and affront to the families with actual hostages stil being held by Hamas in Gaza right now."
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