The Maryland congressman's voice broke, and he paused and put his hand over his face, rubbing his brows as he appeared to hold back tears. "You know what she said? She said, 'Dad, I don't want to come back to the capitol.'" "I promised her it would not be like this again the next time she came back to the Capitol with me," Raskin said. The events that led to the second impeachment charge against Trump is fresh in Raskin's mind, particularly because his family was with him on January 6, the day violence and rioting broke out in the. After the articles of impeachment were delivered to the Senate on Monday night, it will be up to him and eight other members of the House of Representatives to make the case that former President Donald Trump is guilty of insurrection. When they were reunited, Raskin told his daughter how sorry he was. House Democrat Jamie Raskin has a big task on his shoulders. My son-in-law had never even been to the capitol before," he said. Raskin said his chief of staff, daughter, and son-in-law locked themselves in the office, "hiding under the desks, placing what they thought were their final texts and whispered phone calls to say their goodbyes." And all around me, people were calling their wives and their husbands, their loved ones to say goodbye." His brilliance and compassion knew no bounds. Tommy was a second-year student at Harvard Law School and a graduate of Amherst College. "I couldn't get out there to be with them in that office. Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Sarah Bloom Raskin announced the loss of their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin, 25, on Thursday. "By the time we learned about it, about what was going on, it was too late," Raskin.
His daughter watched from the House visitor's gallery as he made a speech and then returned to Hoyer's office, not knowing that the Capitol had been breached.
And I felt a sense of being lifted up from the agony, and I won't forget their tenderness." "Lots of Republicans, lots of Democrats came to see me. "Colleagues dropped by to console us about the loss of our middle child, Tommy," Raskin said. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer offered Raskin his office that day. His daughter and son-in-law had told Raskin that they heard Trump supporters would be in Washington to protest the counting of Electoral College votes and asked if it would be safe for them to attend. "And I invited them instead to come with me to witness this historic event, the peaceful transfer of power in America." It was our constitutional duty," Raskin said. And I told them I had to go back to work because we were counting electoral votes that day, Jan. 6, was because they wanted to be together with me in the middle of a devastating week for our family. "The reason they came with me that Wednesday, Jan. 6, Raskin brought to the Capitol with him his 24-year-old daughter Tabitha, who is an algebra teacher, and his son-in-law Hank, who is married to his other daughter Hannah - "Who I consider a son too, even though he eloped with my daughter and didn't tell us what they were going to do because it was in the middle of COVID-19," Raskin said. Mr Raskin and the eight other impeachment managers will be delivering an emotional appeal for their case in addition to the legal one, as the riot has left hundreds of people on Capitol Hill traumatised – from lawmakers, staffers and police officers to journalists and maintenance workers.On Jan. It is gutting.Īs rioters stampeded through the building, Mr Raskin “asked his chief of staff to protect his visiting daughter and son-in-law ‘with her life’ – which she did by standing guard at the door clutching a fire iron while his family hid under a table”, the impeachment managers write. The grieving father's in-the-moment response to the mayhem appears in the Democrats’ statement of facts from their pre-trial brief. The day after the funeral service, Mr Raskin and dozens of his colleagues were forced to scramble for cover on the floor of the US House as a pro-Trump mob descended on the legislature, smashing windows, smearing excrement on walls, and parading Confederate flags through the nation's sacred hallways.
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