Jamie Raskin (D-MD) got into a contentious exchange with Rep. Tantalizingly, Raskin deflects on the question of whether former vice president Mike Pence has spoken to the committee or might testify against Trump. Raskin scolds Gaetz after grilling him on Trumps election lies Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is a constitutional law professor. A viral video of Gaetz’s appearance as a witness before the Rules Committee of the House on Wednesday cast him in a decidedly poor light, especially opposite Rep. News week has asked Jamie Raskin’s office for comment.Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a key member of the January 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack, gives Inside the Hive an exclusive preview of next week’s prime-time hearing.Īfter nearly a year of investigating the insurrection, Raskin says the most surprising discovery has been “the role that money played, and the role of a financial motive behind all these events to keep the money pouring in.” The committee, he promises, will also draw direct and indirect lines between “the top of the Republican hierarchy” and the “violent hooligans and street fascists” who overran the Capitol.īut will Donald Trump himself be implicated? Raskin has said the former president will get his “comeuppance,” but whether he’ll face direct criminal justice for his “premeditated” role in an attempted coup remains an open question. Gaetz’s usual attention-grabbing antics in Congress wound up backfiring on him as well. “I was forced to rekindle all my love for Tommy and my daughters, Hannah and Tabitha, and my wife, Sarah, and our family and our country, and throw myself into the process of proving that Donald Trump had instigated this violent insurgency in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” Raskin said. He discussed how he took on the role of House impeachment manager for President Donald Trump’s second impeachment, not long after Tommy died. Raskin, who represents Maryland’s 8th district, spoke about his son’s death in an interview with NPR in January. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Thursday stood up for the Family Research Council, a hate group that has spent nearly 40 years spreading dangerous lies about LGBTQ people under the cloak of religious freedom. Gaetz appeared to be hinting at how Raskin will act when the televised Select Committee hearings begin Thursday. But it could be very relevant to what he’s going on and the country shouldn’t be going through all that with him,” Gaetz said. “And I think it’s clouding his judgment, and you could see that, that same darkness and that pain manifested on Thursday in a way that’s not particularly relevant to the challenges we were talking about. Greene and Gaetz then had a brief exchange before the congressman said, “But for Jamie Raskin, it’s really like his service in Congress is almost inseparable from this sad personal trauma he’s had.” Gaetz said, “I think this makes him look at everything in these very, dark and serious ways.” to deal with that personal trauma,” the Republican continued. But I think he takes on that trauma and he now associates it with his work in Congress in such an intertwined way that he’s unable to take the Congress experience outside of just the dungeon. And where I worry about make Congress and for Jamie Raskin, you know, nobody would ever want to lose a child, especially not by suicide,” said Gaetz. Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD) son’s suicide during an appearance on Rep. “What I’m concerned about with Raskin, in all seriousness - 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 that. Marjorie Taylor Greene went around the internet. Matt Gaetz speaking with carpetbagger Rep. Gaetz and Greene have in their entire family tree at this point.
Gaetz has suggested that Raskin is “unable” to do his job due to his son’s death. Jan6 On Wednesday, a clip of Florida man and suspected child sex trafficker Rep. Raskin, for all of the tragedy he has endured, has more integrity in a clipped fingernail than Reps. In this combination image, Matt Gaetz listens during a campaign rally at The Trout Club on Apin Newark, Ohio, and Jamie Raskin listens to a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 17, 2022.
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