What Democrats Lost With Elijah Cummings' Death
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“When we’re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked…what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact?”
When Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, testified last February before the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the panel’s chairman, closed the hearing with a seemingly extemporaneous eight-minute speech. Expanding on his own earlier statement that, “we’re better than this,” in reference to the president’s impact on the country, Cummings remarks were strikingly empathetic to Cohen, openly emotional, and morally urgent.
“I know that this has been hard,” Cummings told Cohen. “I know that you face a lot. I know that you are worried about your family. but this is part of your destiny and hopefully this portion of your destiny will lead to a better Michael Cohen, a better Donald Trump, a better Untied States of American, and a better world.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/what-democrats-lost-with-elijah-cummings-death/
