Senate and 70 members of the House wrote to Secretary of State George Shultz, warning that the Soviet Union would use the events for intelligence purposes. In the 1980s, in order to undermine Reagan’s defense buildup, Marcus Raskin and the IPS planned several conferences with Soviet officials believed to be under the influence or control of the Soviet intelligence services.
Raskin’s own particular “March for Truth” consisted of marching away in anger and disgust when I pressed him about his father’s ties to the Russians and the nature of his father’s think tank, the IPS. I didn’t.Īs I stood by, Raskin spoke French with a French broadcaster for several minutes, apparently repeating his allegations that the Russians had intervened against the successful pro-European candidate, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron, in the recent French presidential election.
My press credentials were hanging around my neck where he could see them.Ī vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Raskin refused to engage in any extended substantive discussion with this writer, and his press secretary gave me his business card, hoping that would satisfy me and I would go away. Raskin seemed to threaten this writer with some kind of undefined action and asserted, “I don’t knoww who you are, but you’re deranged.” Walking away in disgust when I further questioned his father’s involvement with Soviet officials, he told me, “Go work for Donald Trump.” Regarding Trump and the Russians, however, Raskin has Tweeted, “We need an independent commission to scrutinize Trump’s pervasive staff infection.” It was a clever line he repeated in his speech.ĭescribed by the liberal press as an “open humanist” with atheistic beliefs, Rep. His father was Marcus Raskin, a former Kennedy administration official who was a founder of the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). The exchange, captured on tape, followed questions about his father’s involvement in arranging conferences with Soviet officials during the Cold War, for the purpose of undermining then-President Ronald Reagan’s anti-communist policies. Clearly upset about a line of questioning that exposed his hypocritical anti-Russian stance, Raskin said, “Stop harassing me.”
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