“We all had become great students of Donald Trump and his psyche,” Raskin recalled. Over the next few months, he tried to piece together the Trump team’s likely strategy. So when Pelosi asked him to game out what Trump might do in November, Raskin undertook the task with characteristic vigor.
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She confided in Raskin, who had long been obsessed with the Electoral College system, which he thought was full of “booby traps” that someone like Trump could exploit. Two men could hardly have been more different: Raskin, an earnest constitutional law scholar who keeps a vegan diet and Trump, a showman with a cynical disregard for legal niceties and a preference for well-done steak.Īs early as May 2020, Pelosi had begun to worry that Trump would try to win a second term as president by any means - even if he lost at the ballot box.
Months earlier, Raskin reveals in “ Unthinkable,” his wrenching new memoir, Pelosi had tapped him for a special assignment: to think like Trump. And by asking me to be the lead impeachment manager, she was telling me that I was still needed.” A secret mission And I wasn’t sure if I would ever really be able to do anything again. “Pelosi’s got some magical powers,” he went on, after collecting himself. Raskin choked up at this point, bowing his head on folded hands. “I felt it was necessary, and Tommy was with me every step along the way.” “I had no choice,” Raskin said in an interview at his home in Takoma Park, Md., a proudly progressive enclave just outside Washington.
Six days after that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Raskin to lead the second impeachment of former President Donald J.
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