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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) comments about her physical appearance demonstrate that she is “absolutely” racist.
“She is racist. I mean, I have no doubts about it. Because, I mean, I don’t know if she ever attacked her own colleagues,” Crockett said, referring to Greene’s comments during a hearing that descended into chaos after the Georgia lawmaker insulted Crockett over her eyelashes. hairpieces.
She noted that Greene has not attacked other colleagues because of their appearance, including Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), although the two have fought in the past.
“She and Boebert are not getting along. Boebert has bobby pins in her hair. And Boebert also wears eyelashes sometimes – it seems. I don’t know. But she doesn’t attack her for anything of hers [physical embellishments]. She doesn’t do that, right? But she decided to do it with me. So absolutely [she’s a racist],” said Crockett.
“She will probably raise money, because racists will be only too happy to give it to her.”
A meeting to hammer out a resolution to detain Attorney General Merrick Garland was overshadowed by Greene’s comments and led to a series of barbs as well as other comments about the Georgia lawmaker’s appearance.
“Please tell me what this has to do with Merrick Garland,” Crockett said at one point during the hearing, later adding, “Do you know why we are here?”
“I don’t think you know why you’re here,” Greene responded. “I think your false eyelashes are getting in the way of what you’re reading.”
The comments led to a long detour over whether to attack Greene’s words, as other members like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called them “disgusting” and asked her to apologize.
More mayhem occurred later when Crockett asked whether a hypothetical comment — which appeared to be a veiled jab at Greene — would break congressional protocol.
“I’m just curious, just to better understand your decision,” Crockett said, referring to a decision Comer had made regarding Greene’s comments. “If someone on this committee starts talking about someone’s blond, poorly built body, that wouldn’t be engaging in personalities, right?”
Greene addressed the issue in a long post on social platform on Friday morning, which broadly criticized Democrats in Congress and the White House and addressed the trial of former President Trump.
“Some people are upset about the Oversight Committee scene last night, well, I am upset and disgusted almost every day in the Democrat-controlled DOJ, the federal government, and Congress in general,” Greene wrote.
“Forgive me if I don’t speak as well as some people would like to hear.”
Ocasio-Cortez on Friday also pointed out the racial undertones of Greene’s comments.
“It is not lost on me that Ms. Green attacked 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,” she told reporters.
Michael Lillis and Cheyenne Daniels contributed.
