POLICE STATE N.J. REP. BILL PASCRELL, JR. says Trump should be tried for ‘crimes against our nation and Constitution’

NORTH EAST NEW JERSEY NINTH DISTRICT DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVE WANTS REVENGE

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GOOD CATHOLIC FORDHAM UNIVERSITY GRADUATE WANTS TRUMP & HIS FOLLOWERS PROSECUTED

BY JONATHAN D. SALANT

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New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., one of Donald Trump’s fiercest critics on Capitol Hill, is demanding the president and his aides be investigated and prosecuted after they leave office.

Pascrell, D-9th Dist., said late Tuesday that a failure to do so would embolden “criminality by our national leaders” and continue "America down the path of lawlessness and authoritarianism.”

The congressman, re-elected Nov. 3, ticked off a litany of “innumerable crimes” that he said the president should be held accountable for.

“He has endangered our national security,” Pascrell said. “He ripped families apart. He poisoned the Census. He has personally profited from his office. He has attacked our elections and sought to throttle democracy. He was rightly impeached by the House of Representatives. He has engaged in treachery, in treason. He has all but given up on governing and protecting our nation and if he had a shred of dignity he would resign today.”
Pascrell said that the U.S. Justice Department and others should investigate the entire Trump administration next year, and that any effort by the president to pardon his aides should be considered “obstruction of justice” and a self-pardon would be illegal.

“Donald Trump along with his worst enablers must be tried for their crimes against our nation and Constitution,” Pascrell said. “Failure to hold financial and political wrongdoing accountable

in the past has invited greater malfeasance by bad actors. A repeat of those failures in 2021 further emboldens criminality by our national leaders and continues America down the path of lawlessness and authoritarianism. There must be accountability.”

The Trump campaign nor the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
 
One of Trump’s most loyal members in the House, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., did respond, calling Pascrell’s position “disgusting.”

Pascrell has used Twitter, Trump’s favorite communications medium, to regularly bash the president and his aides.

He also led the so-far unsuccessful effort to obtain Trump’s tax returns, and quickly used his new position as chair of the House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee to demand that Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig release the returns.

Jonathan D. Salant may be reached at jsalant@njadvancemedia.com.

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