“This was the most terrible crime ever by a president of the United States against our country. “And the vast majority of American people, Democrats, Republicans and independents, reject armed insurrection and violence as a new way of doing business in America. There was an attack on our country, there was an attack on our people.”Īsked how he could deal with such “trauma on top of trauma”, Raskin said: “I’m not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021.
“In between them and me was a rampaging armed mob, that could have killed them easily and was banging on the doors where they were hiding under a desk with my chief of staff, Julie Tagen. “When we went to count the electoral college votes and came under that ludicrous attack, I felt my son with me and I was most concerned with our youngest daughter and my son-in-law, who is married to our other daughter, who were with me that day and who got caught in a room off of the House floor. I’m a professor of constitutional law, but I did it really with my son in my heart, and helping lead the way. She’s actually been very sensitive and thoughtful but she wanted me to do it because she knows that I’ve devoted my life to the constitution and to the republic. “First of all,” he said, with a laugh, “I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to say no to Speaker Pelosi about anything.
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People were asking, he said, why he agreed to take on such a senior role in the impeachment trial at such a difficult time. “And that was the last act in a life that dazzled.” We lost him on the very last day of that God-awful year, 2020, and he left us a note, which said ‘Please forgive me, my illness won today, look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me, all my love Tommy.’ “He had overwhelming love for humanity and for our country, in his heart, and really for all the people of the world. “Tommy was a remarkable person,” he said. Raskin discussed the impeachment on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. Trump’s trial could start immediately after Joe Biden takes power on Wednesday. The president was impeached for the second time for inciting the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January, in which five people died, to further his baseless claim that the election was stolen. His father, a constitutional law professor and representative from Maryland, was this week named as lead impeachment manager for Trump’s second Senate trial. Tommy Raskin, a Harvard law student who struggled with depression, died on New Year’s Eve.
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