Rep. Jamie Raskin: John Bolton Indictment ‘Revenge’ for Saying Trump Was ‘Melting Before Vladimir Putin’

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RASKIN: “Remember, we still have not seen that Jack Smith report, which was all about Donald Trump deliberately taking and deliberately keeping all kinds of classified documents, then refusing to turn them over, fighting with the government about it, and so on. So, you know, it‘s hard to know what to say about this other than there is no way that had Bolton not broken with Donald Trump, he would be facing these charges today. In other words, he‘s going to have a very strong claim of selective and vindictive prosecution because it‘s only being brought because he said that Donald Trump was, you know, melting before Vladimir Putin, was constantly mixing government business with personal moneymaking business and so on. I mean, he wrote a whole book saying, if Trump were to be elected again, the second term would be far worse than the first term. And so there‘s no doubt that revenge is being exacted against him for those kinds of statements."