In the image, Donald Trump speaks with Vice President Mike Pence, on January 6, 2021.
“I’m immunocompromised.” Presentation of the conclusions of the Special Commission, on December 19. He apologized that the interview was over Zoom the doctors, he explained, have advised him to avoid contact with people as much as possible. He wasn’t wearing his usual dark suit and tie, but rather, dressed in comfortable clothes, with a backwards baseball cap. Raskin, 60, spoke to EL PAÍS last Saturday, from his home in Takoma Park – a suburb of Washington, DC – in Montgomery County, Maryland. “History sometimes decides for you.” The past few years of his life are certainly proof of this. Raskin’s prominent role as a member of the committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol made him a key witness to the recent history of the United States. The book, published by HarperCollins in January of 2022, is a mixture of a political treatise and personal memories from the months in which a man lost a son, was about to lose a democracy and became a figure of international prominence by leading – at the request of then-speaker Nancy Pelosi – the second, unsuccessful impeachment against Trump. On that day, Raskin, along with hundreds of other congresspeople, had to flee through the halls of the legislative branch to save themselves from a violent mob.īoth of these “insurmountable traumas” – mourning and insurrection – are the backbone of Raskin’s memoir, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. And, on January 6, two years had also passed since rioters stormed the Capitol building. On December 31, 2022, it was two years since the death of his son, Tommy Raskin, who committed suicide at the age of 25 while suffering from depression aggravated by the Covid pandemic. In addition to this difficult medical situation, the congressman has recently commemorated two terrible anniversaries.
The doctors are very optimistic about it. Since then, Raskin has undergone the first of six chemotherapy sessions. This cancer, which is considered to be “serious but curable” by oncologists, became national news, forcing his meeting with EL PAÍS to be delayed. However, that same day, it was announced that Raskin – one of Washington’s most charismatic politicians – is suffering from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. On December 19, the panel agreed to refer former president Donald Trump and others to the Justice Department for potential criminal charges, including the charge of inciting an insurrection. Raskin was diagnosed in 2022 with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and has continued working while undergoing treatment.This interview was originally meant to take place on December 28, 2022, one week after Congressman Jamie Raskin – a Democrat from Maryland – read out a statement on behalf of all nine members of the bipartisan congressional committee that investigated the assault on the Capitol, which took place just over two years ago, on January 6, 2021. "I feel love and gratitude not just for my family, my friends, my constituents and my colleagues but for the many thousands of people-both Marylanders and those of you living much further away-who have reached out to me over the last five months with expressions of prayer, best wishes, concern, solidarity, sympathy and moral encouragement-not to mention beautiful gifts of bandanas, homemade scarves and sweaters, Capitol Police baseball caps, hospital scrubs, wool hats, chocolate chip cookies, mandel bread, pea soup, vegan matzoh ball soup, and gorgeous paintings, poems and letters that I will treasure forever." "Having now finished chemotherapy and rung the bell with my nurses and doctors, having a midterm PET scan report showing "negative" for any discernible cancer cells, and having a preliminary diagnosis of being "in remission" from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a 90% prognosis of no relapse, I am overwhelmed with gratitude and love," the letter reads.
Jamie Raskin announced Wednesday he has a "serious but curable form of cancer."
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