![]() ![]() "Well my goodness, it's a horrible thing, what he went through, but it doesn't change the fact of, uh, his political beliefs," she said, "and I believe he's a communist and I believe what he's doing on the January 6th Committee is completely wrong. ![]() Greene then stated the quiet part out loud. And the country shouldn't have to go through all that with him." "And I do think it clouds his judgment and you could see that, that very darkness and that pain manifest on Thursday in a way that's not particularly relevant to the challenges that we've talked about, but it might be deeply relevant to what he's going through. "But I think for Jamie Raskin, it's really like, his service in the Congress has almost become like inextricably attached to this sad personal trauma he's had," Gaetz proclaimed. "And we want to vindicate the rights of our citizens and we want to champion their causes and battle their dislikes," Gaetz remarked. "We're not here out of a sense of grievance or hatred. Jamie and his wife, Sarah Raskin, said their son had 'left us this farewell note on New Years Eve day: Please forgive me. "Well and we love this country," Gaetz added. "We're here to serve the people," Greene interjected. "You know, we try to come to the job to uplift people," Gaetz resumed. But I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in the Congress to such an interwoven way that he's unable to do the congressional experience outside of just the dungeon of that personal trauma," Gaetz continued, "and I think it makes him look at everything in these very like, dark and severe ways." "As human beings, our hearts go out to him. And what I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin, you know, no one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide," said Gaetz. "When people encounter trauma, they often associate a lot of the other things around that trauma with it, even if they don't naturally or even rationally associate. ![]() Now, with just 24 hours remaining before public hearings revealing what the bipartisan congressional commission has found begin, Gaetz and Greene have launched a new and unusually cruel offensive against Raskin. Raskin also sits on the Select Committee investigating the attack, which was triggered (at least in part) by Republican lawmakers refusing to acknowledge President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election at Trump's behest. Raskin served as the House of Representatives' manager of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment for inciting the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection. United States Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) appeared on a recent edition of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia)'s podcast and suggested that Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is unable to do his job because his son committed suicide. In an emotional second half of the 20-minute interview, Raskin discussed his late son Tommy Raskin, who died by suicide in December after battling depression.This article originally appeared on AlterNet. But a conviction is not out of the realm of possibility, especially as corporations and wealthy political donors distance themselves from his brand of politics and the Republicans who stood by his attempt to overturn the election. No president has ever been convicted in the Senate, and it would take a two-thirds vote against Trump, an extremely high hurdle. “He was out propagandizing his followers, as you say, for months - first to prepare them that his loss would have to be a fraud.”Ī White House spokesman could not be reached Sunday for reaction to Raskin’s remarks. “The fact that it was deliberated and planned and premeditated underscores the leadership and the complicity of Donald Trump in all of these events,” Raskin said. 2 call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, for instance, Trump urged him to “find” enough votes to award him the state’s Electoral College votes. Trump also attempted to pressure officials in key states in hopes of overturning Biden’s victory. ![]()
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