Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, and his wife Sarah paid tribute to their son Tommy, 25, after his death on New Year's Eve. “This cannot be the future of America,” Raskin said through more tears. A CONGRESSMAN's son who battled depression left a farewell note saying 'my illness won' before he took his own life. Then he survived the mob attack on the Capitol. In a post on the blogging site Medium, the couple wrote a heartfelt tribute to their only son, Thomas, who. The congressman said that exchange, as well as “watching someone use an American flagpole, with the flag still on it, to spear and pummel” a Capitol Police officer “ruthlessly,” were his worst memories of the insurrection. Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, lost his 25-year-old son to suicide on New Year’s Eve. 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.
When it was over and the family reunited, Raskin said he promised his daughter that “it would not be like this again the next time she went to the Capitol” only to have her say she had no interest in coming back. 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. “They thought they were going to die,” he said. Raskin said his daughter and son-in-law were locked in a nearby office, hiding under a desk “placing what they thought were their final texts and whispered phone calls.” The most haunting sound I ever heard, and I will never forget it,” he said. 6, 2021, just a day after Tommy's funeral, Raskin was at work in the U.S. But what happened to him Jamie Raskin suffered heartbreak after finding out about the death of his son. On New Year's Eve 2020, his son Tommy, 25, died by suicide after years of fighting mental illness. “And then there was a sound I will never forget, the sound of pounding on the door like a battering ram. Tommy Raskin passed away on New Year’s Eve at the age of 25.
The mob eventually breached the building, and Raskin described lawmakers on the House floor being instructed to put on gas masks.