![]() ![]() Upon delivering the article of impeachment to the Senate on Jan. "They will do so guided by their great love of country, determination to protect our democracy and loyalty to our oath to the Constitution." "It is their constitutional and patriotic duty to present the case for the president's impeachment and removal," Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Jan. with great solemnity, prayerfulness and urgency." Last month, Pelosi named Raskin the lead impeachment manager, noting that the nine managers "will honor their duty to defend democracy. MORE: Congressional investigators probe videos of Trump associates' actions ahead of Capitol riot we also lost our dear, dear, beloved son, Hannah and Tabitha's beloved irreplaceable brother, a radiant light in this broken world," the statement continued. ![]() On the last hellish brutal day of that godawful miserable year of 2020. "The pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable at last for our dear boy, this young man of surpassing promise to our broken world. a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him," Raskin wrote in a statement following his son's death. He began to be tortured later in his 20s by a blindingly painful and merciless 'disease called depression,'. "Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind. But many more have been requested to appear, such as House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and Fox host Sean Hannity.MORE: Majority of Americans say Trump should be convicted, barred from holding federal office in impeachment trialĭays earlier, on New Year's Eve, Raskin's son Thomas, who was following his father's footsteps at Harvard Law School, took his own life after battling depression. So far, the committee has subpoenaed everyone from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to ex-Trump advisor Stephen Bannon. “We don’t know the exact proportions for every part of the assault on the election, because we don’t have complete testimony yet,” he tells Katie. Though the investigation has been underway for more than a year now, he says it still has a long way to go. 6 insurrection, the events leading up to it, and the people behind it. Raskin’s now serving on the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. “What were these fascists and hooligans going to do that could be worse than what I’d already experienced? But I was very angry about what was taking place and I set my mind to try to figure out exactly what they had done.” “Although it was an objectively terrifying situation, I really experienced no fear because I felt like the very worst thing that could ever happen to me had already happened,” he says. His daughter had asked him not to go into the Capitol that day, but he tells Katie that he saw it as his constitutional responsibility to be there and to formally recognize President Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. He remembers the night before the insurrection very well. Then, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked him to serve as the lead manager in the second impeachment trial of President Trump. In his new memoir, Unthinkable, Raskin recalls a time when he wasn’t sure he was going to ever be able to do anything again because of his grief over the loss of his son. “It’s been described as the beast, as an endless dark tunnel of terror and horror.” Raskin’s son took his own life after a long battle with depression. “We suffered the catastrophe of losing Tommy on the last day of December in 2020 - that’s an inexpressible nightmare.” “You’re talking about the worst week of my life,” Raskin tells Katie in the latest episode of Next Question. First his 25-year-old son, Tommy, committed suicide on New Year’s Eve, and then days later he was at work when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Jamie Raskin experienced not just one but two unimaginable traumas in the span of a single week. ![]()
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