Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
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Well, it's doubly damning when you consider that there's also an IT worker on the staff, who is apparently prepared to testify that Donald Trump tried to get him to delete security camera footage from the Trump servers.
So obviously, Donald Trump was trying to cover his tracks, sometimes he tries to play the fool and act as if he doesn't really know what he's doing. Or maybe he's, you know, too crazy to be found criminally responsible.
But this demonstrates a clearly premeditated pattern of obstructing investigation of the evidence. And he's been charged in that case with not just stealing those documents and concealing those documents over repeated efforts to get them back, but also of obstruction of justice.
So I think there's extremely promising progress for the prosecutors in all of these cases. But this one just seems like an open and shut case to me.
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Yes. Well, I remember when I was an assistant attorney general, Anderson, and I just started out and I was watching some footage kind of along these lines, and saying, you know, it's amazing to me how well, the godfather in the mob movies captured the way these people really talk.
And a senior prosecutor said to me, no, it's quite the reverse. The mobsters watch the movies, and that's how they learn how to talk. And Donald Trump is basically imitating the way he thinks a tough guy acts and what he thinks a mob boss does.
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Well, you know, our colleagues in the GOP have to completely shelter themselves from the actual news, and they've got to wrap themselves in this ideological vacuum where they're just playing, you know, Donald Trump propaganda, quote tapes jall the time.
I mean, if they really listened to that, and tried to compare it to things that they themselves said about Hillary Clinton or about security breaches in the past, there's nothing that they could do to defend any of this and you know, they're all just about to have the problem of explaining why they voted not to impeach or to convict a president who incited a violent insurrection against the union, and yet they're eager to impeach a president for a completely unknown crime, a crime that nobody can specify or identify, because all of the evidence has debunked all of their allegations.
If they had a single damning fact against Joe Biden, believe me it's all we would be hearing about, but they don't have a single one.
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You bet.
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