Jamie Raskin Defends Trump Trial as ‘Dramatic Success in Historical Terms’

Congressman Jamie Raskin, the lead House impeachment manager, defended the Donald Trump impeachment trial as a “dramatic success in historical terms” a day after the former president’s acquittal.

On Meet the Press, Chuck Todd noted that while seven Republicans voted to convict and even Mitch McConnell excoriated the former president, he and the majority of other Republicans voted to acquit Trump. Only 57 senators voted to convict Trump, not enough for the two-thirds vote required.

“So do you feel like this was a success?” Todd asked. “Or do you feel like because you failed to convict that you can’t look at it any other way than a failure?”

Raskin said it was a “dramatic success in historical terms” and noted how it was “the largest impeachment conviction vote in U.S. history, by far the most bipartisan majority that’s ever assembled in the Senate to convict.”

“Unfortunately it didn’t reach the two-thirds majority in the Senate,” Raskin added. “I think that we successfully prosecuted him and convicted him in the court of public opinion and in the court of history.”

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