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A conflict during a congressional hearing has resulted in a rift between two politicians. According to CBS News, last week (May 16), a meeting focused on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland turned into a combat of words between two Democrats, Dallas Rep. Jasmine Crockett and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, versus Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee gathered to work towards voting on whether to find Garland in contempt for refusing to turn over audio recordings between President Joe Biden and special counsel Robert Hur.
During the meeting, Rep. Crockett asked Rep. Taylor if she was aware of the agenda. Rep. Greene responded with comments on Rep. Crockett’s physical appearance.
“I don’t think you know what you are here for… I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading,” she said.
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was the first to respond, asserting, “I would like to move to take down Ms.Greene’s words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person? Move her words down.”
Rep. Greene countered, “Are your feelings hurt?”
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez returned, “Girl. Baby girl, don’t even play… We are gonna move and take your words down.”
Rep. Crockett then responded by targeting Greene’s appearance, retorting, “I’m just curious, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach-blonde bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
Oh wow, Jasmine Crockett goes off on Marjorie Taylor Greene and Luna pic.twitter.com/AShjGfPXoe
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2024
Rep. Crockett was advised to calm down by GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, which she rejected. Republicans voted to allow Greene to remain for the hearing, and she declined to apologize. After the incident, the clip went viral, and Rep. Crockett discussed her thoughts on Rep. Greene’s behavior.
“Do you think her going after your eyelashes, that that, in itself, is racist?” asked State of the Union host Jake Tapper during an interview on Sunday (May 19), per Rolling Stone.
“I think her specifically doing it to me, yes, that was the intent,” Crockett detailed. “Women wear makeup, we wear lashes, we wear all types of things to beautify ourselves. But MAGA has historically been on social media doing the things where they’re saying, ‘Oh, she’s Black with lashes and nails and hair, and so she’s ghetto.’ And so, to me, this was her buying into that rhetoric and trying to amplify this for the MAGA crowd. And so, yes, I absolutely think that she only did it to be racist towards me.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett at CNN: “The problem with MAGA is that MAGA does not respect rules nor do they respect the law, that is exactly why they’re all running up to Trump’s trial … the ‘party of law and order’ is bun at this point in time.” pic.twitter.com/p5fzIR9bjF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2024
She expressed that she does not regret her response, adding, “I signed up to be a member of Congress. That didn’t mean that I was supposed to walk into a position where I’m going to walk in and be disrespected.”
Rep. Crockett continued, “It’s already a hostile work environment being there, and we do have rules,” she continued. “The problem with MAGA is that MAGA does not respect rules, nor do they respect the law. That is exactly why they’re all running up to Trump’s trial, because he’s in trouble not because of some big conspiracy by the Biden administration. He’s in trouble because he fails to respect the law.”