On his son Tommy’s heightened sensitivity and empathyįrom a very young age, he was an enormously sensitive person. And suddenly I was just thrust into a world of complete tragedy and pain, and the madness of the insurrection and the attack on our system of government. I have a colleague, Abigail Spanberger from Virginia, who was once asked on C-SPAN, “Who’s the funniest member of Congress?” And it was my greatest achievement that she said, “Oh, no question: Jamie Raskin.” And that’s who I was. 6, I was the happiest, funniest member of Congress you could ever care to meet. This whole thing has been such an episode of cognitive dissonance for me, because people will tell you that before we lost Tommy, before Jan. It’s all about the future of our country.” … We’re going to get to the answers and I’m going to report them this year to the American people, because the people deserve it.
“We don’t spend all of our time in partisan polemics and food fights. “I’ve never been on a more effective and serious bipartisan committee than select committee,” he says. 6 insurrection, the events leading up to it and the people behind it. Now Raskin is serving on the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan.
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Trump’s second impeachment trial ended in acquittal in February 2021. “And so my feeling to the people who want to take down our democracy is that they’re not going to scare me out of doing my job.” “I personally felt no fear, because the very worst thing that ever could have happened to me had already happened to me,” he says. Raskin knew that leading the impeachment trial would likely result in death threats, but he pushed on. “I was forced to galvanize all of my love for Tommy and my daughters, Hannah and Tabitha, and my wife, Sarah, and our family and our country, and to throw myself into the trial to make the case that Donald Trump had incited this violent insurrection in an effort to overthrow the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin says. Looking back now, Raskin sees Pelosi’s request as a lifeline. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asked him to serve as the lead manager in the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. There was a time, he says, when “I wasn’t sure whether I was ever going to be able to do anything again.” In his new memoir, Unthinkable, Raskin reflects on his continuing efforts to understand those two traumatic events. Capitol with his daughter and son-in-law when a violent mob stormed the building in an attempt to overturn the results of the presidential election. 6, 2021, just a day after Tommy’s funeral, Raskin was at work in the U.S. On New Year’s Eve 2020, his son Tommy, 25, died by suicide after years of fighting mental illness. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., experienced two unimaginable traumas in the span of a single week. The Fund has been launched with an initial contribution of $50,000.A year ago, Rep. The official statement reads, “The Fund will distribute money on a semiannual basis to causes and charities championed and advanced by Tommy Raskin, such as Oxfam, Give Directly, the Helen Keller Institute, and Animal Outlook. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund:įollowing Tommy’s death, the family decided to honor him by starting a memorial fund. FIND OUT: Wy was Vogue criticized for Kamala Harris cover?.They further wrote, “On the last hellish brutal day of that godawful miserable year of 2020, when hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people all over the world died alone in bed in the darkness from an invisible killer disease ravaging their bodies and minds, we also lost our dear, dear, beloved son, Hannah and Tabitha’s beloved irreplaceable brother, a radiant light in this broken world.” The stories of his love and compassion are absolutely astounding.”Īfter Tommy’s death, Jamie and his family had released a statement in which he remembered his son as someone who had a “perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind.” But it wasn’t his mind that marked him as so extraordinary. He continued, “He had a photographic memory and, like some other kids in our family, knew all the presidents and vice presidents in order.
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