And the country shouldn’t have to go through all that with him. His family organized a day of community service in his. 6 insurrection, would have been 27 on Sunday. Mr Gaetz concluded: “But it might be deeply relevant to what he’s going through. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) who died by suicide a week before the Jan. He continued, referring to tonight’s public hearing of the Capitol riot committee on which Mr Raskin sits: “And I think it does cloud 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.” In a further jab at Mr Raskin, the Florida lawmaker said: “We’re not here out of a sense of grievance or hatred. 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.”īoth he and Ms Greene said they were in Congress to serve the people and for the love of country. In his fuller comments, Mr Gaetz said: “As a human being, our hearts go out to him. Jamie Raskin recounts son's suicide, Capitol riots in new book Raskin, who represents my congressional district, tells the story of that unthinkable week and the resulting. In a post on the blogging site Medium, the couple wrote a heartfelt tribute to their only son, Thomas, who grappled with chronic depression. Turning her attention to Mr Gaetz, she tore into the Florida lawmaker: “Gaetz is a bad haircut in a cheap suit, a feat of mediocrity given that he’s here on papa’s money. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and his wife, Sarah Bloom, released a statement on Monday about the death of their 25-year-old son, announcing that he took his own life on Dec. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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