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“Now the Trump administration allows the Saudis to enrich uranium,”
on the Trump administration's Saudi nuclear deal allowing uranium enrichment
Fox News WATCH: Democrats blast Trump Saudi nuclear deal as GOP touts regional alliance ›
On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
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D-Md., committee ranking member
33 things Jamie Raskin said, verbatim, from March 26, 2026 to September 25, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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Jamie Raskin on The Middle East2
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“So, the Saudis enrich the Trumps, and the Trumps allow the Saudis to enrich uranium and then we're going to have more nuclear weapons in the Middle East to set off another nuclear arms race there.”
on the Trump-Saudi nuclear deal risking a Middle East arms race
Fox News WATCH: Democrats blast Trump Saudi nuclear deal as GOP touts regional alliance ›
Jamie Raskin on National security & surveillance1
Jamie Raskin on Campaigns & elections1
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“When people say they're socialists today, I don't think that they believe in dialectical materialism and dictatorship of the proletariat and classical Marxian socialism,”
Latest Political News on Fox News WATCH: Maryland Dems defend ‘big tent’ party as New York socialist surge fuels Dem divide ›
Jamie Raskin on Democracy & voting rights2
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“Will we have democracy or will we have autocracy?”
The Forward Abdul El-Sayed and Jamie Raskin sidestep Hasan Piker, and Israel, in Michigan campaign stops ›
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“Don’t go to war and usurp the powers of Congress to declare war. … Don’t spend money in a way different from how Congress has appropriated money. Don’t impose illegal taxes and tariffs on the American people without congressional consent.”
on constitutional limits on presidential war, spending and tariff powers
Truthout Trump Demands GOP-Controlled House Expel Dem Lawmaker Jamie Raskin ›
Jamie Raskin on Corruption & scandal17
On the claim ledger Open
“It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it.”
on a government-funded pro-Trump ad on Fox and Newsmax
Washington Examiner The U.S. government paid for a $14,000 pro-Trump ad on Fox and Newsmax ›
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“Judiciary Democrats will investigate who lied, who buried the evidence, and who decided to threaten an American citizen with prison simply to protect Trump’s wounded feelings and continuing corruption,”
on Democrats investigating Trump administration charges over Reflecting Pool vandalism
Truthout Dems Will Investigate Trump Admin’s Reflecting Pool “Vandalism” Charges ›
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“Participants in this frame-up will be held to account.”
Truthout Dems Will Investigate Trump Admin’s Reflecting Pool “Vandalism” Charges ›
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“These hollow words are an affront to the American people, Congress and the courts, and are clearly designed to lull Senators Cornyn and Tillis into a false sense that their legitimate concerns have been addressed while leaving Blanche’s corrupt scheme fully intact.”
The Guardian ‘Completely hollow’: critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund ›
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“[Y]our election as Fifa president was supposed to mark a red-card break from a decades-long culture of corruption and scandals that dressed down world soccer’s reputation,”
on Fifa president Gianni Infantino's ties to Trump and corruption claims
The Guardian Fifa president Gianni Infantino called to appear before Congress over Trump ties ›
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“Jack Smith could not have lied because Republican Members never even asked the question their theory is based on”
on whether Smith was asked about accessing lawmakers' texts
NBC News Rep. Jim Jordan formally asks DOJ to prosecute Jack Smith over congressional testimony ›
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“Mr. Smith may be telegenic but he is not telepathic,”
on Smith's liability for unasked questions
Fox News Jack Smith hit with criminal referral as GOP moves testimony fight toward prosecution ›
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“Jeffrey Epstein never registered as a foreign agent,”
Truthout Raskin Launches Investigation Into Whether Epstein Acted as a Foreign Agent ›
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“Yet numerous recently released documents now show he acted aggressively on behalf of multiple foreign governments, including several with interests adverse to the United States, in order to influence policies of the first Trump administration.”
Truthout Raskin Launches Investigation Into Whether Epstein Acted as a Foreign Agent ›
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“I’d like to tell the president…there’s a very easy way to not get impeached: Stop committing impeachable offenses, stop committing high crimes and misdemeanors,”
on Trump facing calls for impeachment over alleged high crimes and misdemeanors
Truthout Trump Demands GOP-Controlled House Expel Dem Lawmaker Jamie Raskin ›
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“From the standpoint of the American people, your decision to act in these two roles — one public for the government and one private for personal profit — creates a glaring and incurable conflict of interest,”
on Jared Kushner's dual public and private roles as peace envoy creating conflicts of interest
Truthout New Billionaire Jared Kushner Is Mired in Conflicts of Interest as “Peace Envoy” ›
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“The whole government has been weaponized and turned into an instrument of moneymaking for the Trump family.”
on the Trump family profiting from a weaponized federal government
Breitbart News Raskin: Our Whole Government Turned into a Moneymaking Instrument for the Trump Family ›
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“It is now clear that DOJ is in possession of evidence that President Trump has already endangered national security to further the interests of Trump family businesses,”
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“But why did he take them? New documents obtained by @HouseJudiciary reveal the president may have taken the documents and sold out our national security to enrich himself—and the DOJ is working hard to block the evidence.”
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“It is time for you to stop the cover-up and allow the American people to know what secrets he betrayed and how he may have cashed in on them.”
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“Apparently blinded by the frenzied search to find any scrap of evidence that could be twisted and distorted to level an attack against Special Counsel Smith, you have, quite amazingly, missed the fact that some of the documents you provided include damning evidence about your boss’s conduct,”
on DOJ records suggesting Trump misused classified documents for profit
Truthout Raskin: DOJ Records Suggest Trump Leveraged Classified Docs for Financial Gain ›
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“We have long known that, as he left office in 2021, President Donald Trump stole classified documents, hoarded them in the ballrooms and bathrooms of his Mar-a-Lago clubhouse, defied subpoenas, and obstructed law enforcement. One lingering question has been: why?”
on Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving office in 2021
Truthout Raskin: DOJ Records Suggest Trump Leveraged Classified Docs for Financial Gain ›
Jamie Raskin on Courts & the law10
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“DOJ’s abrupt abandonment of its prosecution, paired with President Trump’s and Secretary Burgum’s decision to circle the wagons around their debunked and ridiculous conspiracy theories, raise a host of profoundly troubling questions,”
on DOJ dropping its Reflecting Pool damage prosecution and Trump's response
MSNBC Raskin launches probe into Trump administration’s attempted prosecution over Reflecting Pool damage ›
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“botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented by DOI.”
on the Reflecting Pool damage being a botched installation, not vandalism
MSNBC Raskin launches probe into Trump administration’s attempted prosecution over Reflecting Pool damage ›
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“This referral deliberately distorts and misstates the facts, including what questions the Republicans actually asked at Mr. Smith's interview,”
NPR Republicans urge Justice Department to investigate former prosecutor Jack Smith ›
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“The Republicans fault Mr. Smith for not reading the minds of congressional investigators and for not volunteering information they didn't ask for,”
on Republicans faulting Jack Smith over his congressional testimony
CBS News House committee urges DOJ to charge former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith ›
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“deliberately distorts and misstates the facts, including what questions the Republicans actually asked at Mr. Smith’s interview.”
on Jim Jordan's request that DOJ prosecute Jack Smith over testimony
NBC News Rep. Jim Jordan formally asks DOJ to prosecute Jack Smith over congressional testimony ›
On the claim ledger Open
“Congressional Republicans never asked Jack Smith about presidential records”
on Republican oversight of Jack Smith during congressional questioning
NBC News Jim Jordan refers Jack Smith to the DOJ for prosecution ›
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“Lower federal courts have been deciding against the Trump administration in an overwhelming majority of cases with weighty and well-reasoned opinions,”
Truthdig Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ›
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“Yet when things get to the twilight zone of the shadow docket, the Supreme Court is overturning 100-page opinions with a flippant sentence or two.”
on the Supreme Court overturning lengthy lower court rulings via brief shadow docket orders
Truthdig Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ›
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“We all saw President Trump’s piles of classified documents in Mar-a-Lago ballrooms and bathrooms,”
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“Why would Donald Trump go to such extraordinary lengths to steal classified documents, hoard them, and refuse to return them?”
on questioning why Trump kept classified documents after leaving office
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Raskin writes of his son Tommy's death on December 31, 2020 and, days later, the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the second Trump impeachment.
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