President, no one has been carrying your water in this election business more than me, who the eff do you think you're talking to?" "When McCarthy was saying, 'Who the eff do you think you're talking to?' he wasn't acting like a tough guy, like a mobster," Pelosi told Raskin. 6 call when the latter questioned the Republican leader's loyalty. Pelosi was not impressed with reports that McCarthy had a profanity-laced response to Trump during a heated Jan. "McCarthy?! I wouldn't trust him any more than I would trust the guy with ram's horns," Raskin recounts Pelosi having said, referring to the " QAnon Shaman" who took part in the Capitol riot. Raskin also talked strategy with Pelosi during a last-minute scramble to potentially call witnesses, including House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. I saw you up there and I saw myself in it and I'm so proud of you," Raskin recounts Biden, who lost his own son Beau to brain cancer, adding. 10 phone call as the congressman headed to the Capitol for the trial's second day of arguments. "Jamie, I'm calling to tell you that you're a helluva lawyer but you're an even better father," Biden told Raskin in a Feb. 6, present at several key turns in the efforts to ensure that such an attack does not happen again.ĭuring his rendering of the Senate impeachment trial, Raskin takes readers into private conversations with Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as he led his arguments. In some ways, Raskin became one of Democrats' congressional first responders to the events of Jan. The siege propelled Raskin to a new mission as the lead House manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment and now as a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. "So as a congressman and a father of a lost son and two living daughters, I would take a stand, with everything I had left, against that violent catastrophe in the memory and spirit of Tommy Raskin, a person I have, alas, not even begun to properly render in words," Jamie Raskin writes. Raskin writes that "stomach-churning, violent insurrection that desecration of American democracy" would have wrecked Tommy Raskin. Raskin was ushered away from the chamber, while his daughter and son-in-law went into hiding under a desk in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office. Raskin and his relatives were trapped during the attack. This as the family, like the rest of the world, was already struggling against the crushing weight of the pandemic.įor his part, Raskin was helping lead arguments against GOP attempts to overturn President Joe Biden's election, as his youngest daughter, Tabitha, and a son-in-law watched from the House visitor's gallery.Īs Raskin sat in the chamber, it was celebrity Alyssa Milano, a family friend, who alerted the congressman by text that rioters had breached the Capitol. Raskin's book opens in the depths of loss and despair, followed days later by the deadly Jan. "I continue to arraign and prosecute myself for every sign, every clue, I missed," writes Jamie Raskin, a former law professor who is also father to two daughters. A rising legal star, Thomas Bloom Raskin died at the age of 25. On the last day of 2020, Raskin lost his son to suicide. In his memoir Unthinkable, hitting shelves Tuesday, Congressman Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is on a journey - moving through layers of excruciating trauma and grief.
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