So I reserved the time and turned it over to Trump's lawyers, who you may recall really did a terrible job, but I don't know that it was completely their fault. One moment I remember specifically: We had delivered our opening statement at the beginning of the Senate impeachment trial, and we ended up with 28 minutes left over. Many of the things that I said resonated to me and were kind of Tommy-speak. Tommy was a really brilliant debater and debated when he was in high school. Can you give an example of a moment during the impeachment where you looked to Tommy for guidance? You write about how you channeled Tommy throughout the impeachment, which occurred just over a month after his passing. And one of them is a very profound poem called “Where War Begins.” It's all about how the slaughter of animals conditions us to accept violence against human beings. He wrote several poems about being vegan and what it meant to him because everybody would ask, “why are you a vegan?” And then he would just get up and start delivering one of these poems.
He converted more people to not eating meat than anybody I've ever met in my entire life. He was an anti-war activist, and he became a vegan and was a really strong animal rights person as well. He was very much a human rights activist. He was somebody that everybody wanted to be around, and he had profound moral and political passions. He was he was a musician, a playwright and a stand-up comic. So many of his classmates just described him as the life of the party. He was in his second year at Harvard Law School when we lost him. We just got back from Cambridge, actually, where Harvard Law School had a memorial service for him. He was just tremendously exuberantly funny. 6, but also because of the powerful and emotional story that you tell about Tommy, who you describe as your North Star. I found it spellbinding both because the events of Jan. “Unthinkable ” reads like a love letter to your late son Tommy and a love letter to democracy. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Raskin tells his intensely personal and political story in his new book, “ Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. Since the summer, Raskin has been a member of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. Speaker Nancy Pelosi then tapped the grieving Raskin to be lead manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial. Capitol, egged on by the defeated president. That’s when Trump supporters mounted a violent insurrection in the U.S. Seven days later - and just a day after burying his son - Raskin returned to Congress to cast his vote to certify Biden’s election.
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