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Texas Democrat charges MTG as 'racist' taking after warmed House exchange

 Texas Democrat charges MTG as 'racist' taking after warmed House exchange


Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was "completely" being bigot amid a warmed House committee session final week.


The House Oversight Committee met Thursday night to vote on holding Lawyer Common Merrick Laurel in scorn of Congress for denying to turn over sound recordings of President Joe Biden's meet with extraordinary direct Robert Hur. Amid the hearing, Greene said to Crockett, “I don’t think you know what you’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”



The Texas official reacted on CNN Sunday that she accepts the questionable Georgia preservationist congresswoman was being intentioned supremacist by coordinating the comment at her.


"Women wear cosmetics, we wear lashes, we wear all sorts of things to decorate ourselves," Crockett said. "But MAGA has verifiably been on social media doing the things where they're saying, 'Oh she's Dark with lashes and nails and hair, and so she's ghetto.' And so, to me, this was her (Greene) buying into that talk and attempting to increase this for the MAGA crowd."


"So, no doubt, I completely think she as it were did it to be bigot towards me."


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At the time Thursday, Greene's comments driven to a warmed back-and-forth between herself and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY.

“That is completely unsatisfactory," Ocasio-Cortez terminated back instantly at Greene. "How set out you assault the physical appearance of another person.”





Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. criticized the strife on Friday on X, composing, "In the past, I’ve depicted the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Appear. Nowadays, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show."

Ocasio-Cortez reacted to Fetterman with her possess post.

"I get it you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and appear to be befuddled around prejudice and misogyny being a 'both sides' issue," the Unused York legislator composed. "But I stand up to bullies, instep of getting to be one."

Fetterman, showing up on CNN on Sunday morning, called Ocasio-Cortez's explanation "absurd."


"I was fair basically reacting to the kind of chaos and everything that Agent Greene begun," Fetterman told CNN. "And if everybody on the committee was pleased of what they created, they're entitled to their conclusion. Or if they feel that this is the kind of a video that you need to send to a classroom of eighth review civics understudies over America, that's their choice."



Crockett told CNN she does not expect any repercussions for Greene.

"I think that this speaker ought to be slanted to attempt to rule her in after attempting to kick him out of his position," Crockett said, alluding to Green's fizzled later move to empty House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. "But they fair let Marjorie do anything she needs to do."

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