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Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Trump Ran for President to Avoid Prison - Rep. Jasmine Crockett
In committee exchange, Rep. Jasmine Crockett lays out what Republicans are desperately trying not to argue: the facts.
Instead of disputing Donald Trump’s guilt, Republicans focused on attacking the prosecutor and questioning whether the investigation should have happened at all. Crockett walks through the record. The convictions. The court rulings. The testimony. The timeline. And the reality that Trump’s return to the presidency halted a prosecution that prosecutors believed would have ended in a conviction.
She calls out the selective outrage, the conspiracy theories, and the attempt to rewrite January 6th while ignoring the evidence, the violence, and the members of Congress who helped make it happen. This is about power protecting itself, not truth.
No spin. No hypotheticals. Just facts, accountability, and a refusal to let history be rewritten. - 01/22/2026.