(Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images) Scott Cunningham/Getty Images/FILEĬarter warns America 'teeters on the brink of a widening abyss' in stark op-ed ahead of January 6 So she threw me a lifeline because she said, ‘We need you.’ “ĪTLANTA, GA - SEPTEMBER 30: Former president Jimmy Carter prior to the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Cincinnati Bengals at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Septemin Atlanta, Georgia. I mean, when the day we lost Tommy, I was essentially catatonic, sitting in a chair, just repeating over and over again, ‘I’ve lost my son. “And then she said, ‘And I’d like you to be the lead impeachment manager,’ and I also agreed to that immediately, but I realized soon thereafter, she had thrown me a lifeline, because I wasn’t sure if I could ever do anything again. Of course I will do that,” the Maryland Democrat told David Axelrod on “ The Axe Files” podcast. And the speaker called me and said, ‘I’d like you to be on the team of impeachment managers.’ And I said, of course I will. Everybody was telling me I was, you know, losing all of this weight. “I was completely shocked when Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi asked me to do it, because I was really a wreck. 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 death and the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
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