Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is ‘racist,’ one black Democrat member who was attacked by the Georgia Republican accused.
The jab comes after a particularly testy House meeting Thursday evening, as lawmakers were rumored to have been boozing before and during the long session.
Greene ridiculed Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s appearance during the hearing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.
‘I don’t think you know what we’re here for,’ Greene said at the hearing before turning her sights on Crocketts’ appearance. ‘I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.’
‘She’s racist,’ Crockett fired back about Greene Friday morning. ‘That is them attacking me, really as a black woman and all they’re trying to do is be like racists. That’s it. That’s that’s all it is, is racism.’
Crockett even suggested that Greene’s racism is ‘absolutely’ indicative of where the GOP stands and that Greene might raise money off of her attacks on her appearance.
‘She probably will raise money because the racists are gonna be so happy to give it to her.’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., ridiculed her black Democrat colleague’s appearance at a late night hearing Thursday
Crockett raised how Greene has never criticized the appearance of any of her colleagues, like Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who was also at the chaotic hearing.
‘Boebert has clippings in her hair,’ Crockett said. ‘And Boebert wears lashes too, sometimes, It looks like, I don’t know. But she doesn’t attack her.’
During the hearing, Crockett hit back at Greene asking the committee chairman if personal attacks like ‘if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body’ if that would be against the rules
When pressed Friday if personal attacks are fair game after the Georgia Republican ridiculed her looks, Crockett said ‘I don’t think they’ve ever been on the table.’
‘I think that we have someone who is not fit for Congress that is currently serving that does not adhere to the rules,’ the Democrat said of Greene.
Progressive ‘Squad’ member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who also got into a spat with Greene during the hearing, said Friday morning the attack by Greene seemed racially motivated.
‘It is not lost on me that that Ms. Greene targeted one of the only black women on the committee for some of the most egregious and disgusting comments and with the expectation that it would be ignored,’ AOC said.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, hit back at Greene asking the committee chairman if personal attacks like ‘if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body’ if that would be against the rules
Crockett, a former lawyer, has represented the district encompassing southern Dallas since 2023
The fight broke out on Thursday night as the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena.
But the hearing quickly spiraled out of control with representatives taking shots at each other and shouting over one another.
Greene asked if ‘any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Merchan’s daughter?’
She was referring to Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who has taken on the services of a political consulting firm that employs the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
Crockett replied to Greene: ‘Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland.’
Greene then said: ‘I don’t think you know what you’re here for… I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.’
She was then cut off by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., calling for order.
He said the petty personal attacks during the hearing were ‘not appropriate.’
‘I kept reminding everyone of the decorum and we’re gonna abide by committee decorum and unfortunately there were a few that that weren’t,’ the lawmaker told DailyMail.com Friday morning.
Both Crockett and AOC said Comer allowed the back-and-forth to continue for too long before excusing the committee to recess so that members could regain their composure.
Greene also got in a verbal fight with AOC during the hearing, which prompted the New York Democrat to tell the Georgia Republican ‘Oh girl, baby, girl… don’t even play’
Comer has said he was unable to keep up with the members’s insults because he has two hearing aides and was not able to discern what Greene, Crockett and AOC were saying at the time.
There were also allegations that some members were drinking booze before or during the late night hearing.
‘It was raised by miss Stansbury, the distinguished gentlelady from New Mexico, who said that there were members drinking in the hearing room,’ the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said.
Though of the several members DailyMail.com spoke to who were in the hearing were not able to confirm or deny the allegations of alcohol consumption.
‘It certainly had much more the atmospherics of a bar room brawl than it did a proper hearing or markup session of the U.S. House of Representatives,’ Raskin added.
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