One year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin reflected on the whirlwind period between the death of his 25-year-old son and the impeachment trial of former Pres. Donald Trump following the attack.
"The day after we buried Tommy in a small family COVID-19 graveside service, we had the violent insurrection at the Capitol and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election by Donald Trump," said Raskin, who wrote about the experience in his new book,"Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy."
"Speaker Pelosi asked me to be the lead impeachment manager over in the Senate for the trial, and I describe in the book, how to me that was throwing me a lifeline because I felt like I was drowning and that I might not ever do anything again," said Raskin.In this April 3, 2021, file photo, Rep. Jamie Raskin delivers a eulogy for his son Tommy Raskin during an outdoor memorial service at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
After a year of gathering evidence and conducting voluntary interviews, he said he's confident the committee will be able to produce results and prevent another attack in the future. "Donald Trump decided to try to seize the presidency, and so there was a riot surrounding an insurrection, surrounding a coup against Vice President [Mike] Pence, who on that day was a great constitutional patriot and refused to bow down to Donald Trump," said Raskin."The apparatus of insurrection is in place every day in lots of states across the country to try to guarantee the victory of Donald Trump if and when he comes back again in 2024."In this Dec. 13, 2021, Rep.
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