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WASHINGTON, D.C., February 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – As lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) calls former President Donald Trump the “inciter-in-chief” for protesting the certification of the 2020 election, critics have called attention to Raskin’s own past refusal to accept the outcome of the 2016 election.
During the second day of the Senate impeachment trial, Raskin and fellow impeachment manager Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) argued that Trump was responsible for the January 6 riot at the Capitol building not only via the words of his speech that day, but because he spent months pursuing allegations of election fraud in several states “widespread” enough to flip the outcome to now-President Joe Biden.
Trump’s continued insistence that he was the true “landslide” winner, Raskin said, is “the big lie that was responsible for inflaming and inciting the mob in the first place.”
In January 2017, however, Raskin himself objected to the certification of Florida’s electoral votes on the claim that ten of the state’s electors were supposedly not legally qualified to serve as electors under state law. Biden, then Vice President
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