Jamie Raskin Blasts Trump For 'Eating Hamburgers' While Insurrectionists Flooded The Capitol

During remarks on the House floor Friday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) spoke about the January 6 Capitol Insurrection.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, I'm moved by the comments of the distinguished gentleman from California,

00:07and I wonder what our colleagues think the value is, other than of a purely political nature,

00:14to a resolution that purports to be honoring law enforcement when it's set up on a completely

00:22partisan basis. I wonder what the value of that is. I especially wonder about what the value of

00:28that is when the majority doesn't even stand by actual law when it comes to honoring law enforcement,

00:34because this body, on March 15, 2022, passed a resolution to put up a plaque, a simple plaque,

00:42to honor the noble and brave police officers who battled for four or five hours to stop a violent

00:52riot and insurrection unleashed against this chamber and against the Senate in an attempt

00:59to overthrow a presidential election. And so we voted to erect a plaque in their honor. That was

01:07on March 15, 2022. It was supposed to have been put up on March 15, 2023. We're now more than two

01:14years overdue in honoring those police officers, 140 of whom were wounded, injured, disfigured,

01:23and many of them permanently disabled. And several lost their lives in the days to follow that atrocity

01:32attack on this body. There's a law which says put up the plaque, and Speaker Johnson and the majority

01:38will not put the plaque up, which is why when you walk in the House office buildings now everywhere

01:43there are poster replicas of that plaque being put up. Now they want to pass a resolution

01:49deploring violence that took place thousands of miles away from here, and it's just a resolution,

01:56a horatory resolution. They can't even get bipartisan support because, of course, they've got to set it up

02:01on a polemical partisan basis instead. What is the utility of that resolution when they won't even

02:07follow an actual law to honor police officers who put themselves between us and a bloodthirsty mob?

02:17And that's not a partisan point because the Republicans denounced it at that time as terrorism,

02:23as an attack on this institution, as intolerable, as unacceptable. And I'm happy to share with my

02:30colleague who I know wasn't in Congress at the time, all of the statements made by

02:36Republican leaders at that time, begging Donald Trump to send in the National Guard, which he

02:43controlled because of the District of Columbia National Guard, and he didn't do it. He sat and he

02:49watched it, eating hamburgers or whatever in the White House on TV, ignoring all of the appeals to send

02:56the National Guard to come and defend Republican and Democratic members of Congress. And now we've got

03:03a law which has put the plaque up in honor of these officers, and they can't do it, but they want to

03:08bring a totally partisan resolution to the floor, deploring violence thousands of miles away. And

03:14you've got members of Congress from California saying that they're not capturing what actually

03:18happened there. But no, it's got to be another opportunity for partisan division. Why?

03:24Why can't we honor law enforcement together and follow through on our word? I'll reserve.

03:31The gentleman reserves. The gentleman...