Resumptive pronouns (is that the right term?) in relative clauses

[pne]

An interesting construction I came across just now here: the pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who's said some things that a lot of people don't want a President who believes.

That's the sort of thing that makes me wonder whether English wouldn't be "better" if it had mandatory, or at least optional, resumptive pronouns.

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[elgrande.livejournal.com]

Can you explain the structure of that sentence?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's easier if I include the "slot" for the resumptive pronoun explicitly?

"the pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who's said some things that [a lot of people don't want a President who believes ____]"

So, JW has said some things X such that: a lot of people don't want a President who believes X.

They're raising (I think this is the term) the object of the sub-subordinate clause ("he believes X", child of "a lot of people don't want a President") referring to it with "that" in the main clause. Or something like that.

It's roughly the same as "JW, who's said some things that [I don't believe ___]", only with the gap one clause deeper than in this last example.