“Of all of the terrible, brutal things that I saw and I heard on that day, and since then, that one hit me the hardest,” Raskin said. ![]() “Dad, I don’t want to come back to the Capitol,” she said, which Raskin choked up while recounting. Raskin hugged them and said he was sorry, vowing to Tabitha that it wouldn’t happen again the next time she returned to the Capitol. More than an hour later, they were reunited. Meanwhile, Tabitha and Hank were locked and hiding in the office with Raskin’s chief of staff, sending what they thought were goodbye texts and making quiet calls, he said. “It’s the most haunting sound I ever heard, and I will never forget it,” Raskin said. Then all were told to put on their gas masks before Raskin heard a sound he said he’d never forget: pounding on the door “like a battering ram.” The new chaplain said a prayer for everyone. People were calling their family members, saying what they thought were their last goodbyes. I couldn’t get out there to be with them in that office,” Raskin said. But Raskin couldn’t get back to the office before the rioters had gotten into the Capitol. ![]() Tabitha and Hank were watching the speech from the gallery and went back to Hoyer’s office after it ended. 6 started out as a day of being “lifted up from the agony” of his son’s death, he said, with dozens of lawmakers visiting him, Tabitha and Hank in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s office.Īnd amid Trump’s attempts to subvert the results of the election, Raskin said that through his tears, he was writing a speech quoting Abraham Lincoln and calling for unity for the House ahead of the counting of the votes, a speech that he ended up giving just before rioters stormed the Capitol.
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