“This was a coup organized by the president against the vice-president and against the Congress in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin said in an interview with the Guardian, Reuters news agency and the Climate One radio program.
“We’re going to tell the whole story of everything that happened.
There was a violent insurrection and an attempted coup and we were saved by Mike Pence’s refusal to go along with that plan,” said Raskin.
Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney and Jamie Raskin, key members of the House Capitol attack panel.
After a broad criminal investigation, about 800 people have been charged with crimes committed in relation to the Capitol attack.
Raskin said: “We don’t have a lot of experience with coups in our own country and we think of a coup as something that takes place against a president.”.
“It’s what the political scientists call a self-coup … It’s a president fearful of defeat, overthrowing the constitutional process,” Raskin said. »