
He discussed how he took up the role as House impeachment manager for then President Donald Trump's second impeachment not long after Tommy died. Raskin, who represents Maryland's 8th district, spoke about his son's death in an interview with NPR in January.

Gaetz appeared to be referring to how Raskin will act when the televised hearings of the Select Committee begin on Thursday. And the country shouldn't have to go through all that with him," Gaetz said. But it might be deeply relevant to what he's going through. "And I think it does cloud his judgment, and you could see that, that very darkness and that pain manifest on Thursday in a way that's not particularly relevant to the challenges that we've talked about. Greene and Gaetz then had a brief exchange before the congressman said: "But I think for Jamie Raskin, it's really like, his service in the Congress has almost become like inextricably attached to this sad personal trauma he's had."
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And what I worry about for the Congress and for Jamie Raskin, you know, no one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide," Gaetz said. "What I worry about with Raskin, in all seriousness-when people encounter trauma, they often associate a lot of the other things around that trauma with it, even if they don't naturally or even rationally associate. Gaetz has suggested Raskin is "unable" to do his job due to his son's death. In this combination image, Matt Gaetz at a campaign rally at The Trout Club on Apin Newark, Ohio and Jamie Raskin listens during a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee at Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 17, 2022.
