
Rep. Jamie Raskin recounts 'lifeline' he received after son's death and January 6 attack
CNN
Rep. Jamie Raskin said that becoming the lead House impeachment manager in former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial last year served as a "lifeline" in the aftermath of his son's death and the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
"I was completely shocked when Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi asked me to do it, because I was really a wreck. I mean, I wasn't sleeping. I wasn't eating. Everybody was telling me I was, you know, losing all of this weight. I looked gaunt, and so on. And the speaker called me and said, 'I'd like you to be on the team of impeachment managers.' And I said, of course I will. Of course I will do that," the Maryland Democrat told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files" podcast.
"And then she said, 'And I'd like you to be the lead impeachment manager,' and I also agreed to that immediately, but I realized soon thereafter, she had thrown me a lifeline, because I wasn't sure if I could ever do anything again. I mean, when the day we lost Tommy, I was essentially catatonic, sitting in a chair, just repeating over and over again, 'I've lost my son. I've lost my boy. My life is over.' For hours. So she threw me a lifeline because she said, 'We need you.' "

Painting of iconic Trump raised-fist scene from Butler rally now hangs in Grand Foyer of White House
The official portrait of former President Barack Obama was moved from its position in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Friday and replaced by a painting of President Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania last summer.