Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) clashed on May 16 during the House Oversight Committee hearing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s two-day interview with President Joe Biden over his alleged mishandling of classified information.
The verbal altercation grew out of a question asked by Ms. Greene. She wanted to know whether New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump in New York, has worked for any members of the committee.
Earlier in the week, a group of House Republicans attended the trial to show support for the former president, who is facing 34 felony counts over his alleged role in a “hush money” scheme involving adult film performer Stormy Daniels during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Things got more tense when, in response to Ms. Greene’s question, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said, “Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland?”
Ms. Greene then made it personal by criticizing Ms. Crockett’s appearance, calling her out for what she said was her not knowing “what you’re here for.”
“I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading,” she said.
“That is absolutely unacceptable,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez interjected. “How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person.”
“Are your feelings hurt?” Ms. Greene fired back.
“Oh, girl. Baby girl. Don’t even play,” said Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
“Baby girl? I don’t think so,” replied Ms. Greene.
Ms. Greene refused to apologize.
The House Judiciary Committee had earlier voted 18–15 to advance the resolution. The Oversight Committee did so, too, later on May 16 in a 24–20 vote.
The resolution would need to pass the House before a referral is made to the Justice Department, but whether House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would bring a resolution to the floor is unclear.
President Biden has asserted executive privilege over the tapes of his two-day interview with Mr. Hur, who was probing the president’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Mr. Hur’s report ultimately recommended no charges against the president. One of the stated reasons was Mr. Hur’s assessment of how the chief executive would present before a jury.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Mr. Hur wrote.
This assessment sparked intensive scrutiny over the 81-year-old president’s mental acuity. Republicans have accused the White House of deliberately concealing the tapes to avoid embarrassment.
The tapes are at the center of a dispute between House Republicans and Mr. Garland, who has defied subpoenas for them. While the Justice Department has turned over transcripts from the interview, it has refused to provide the tapes, arguing there was no need to do so, while accusing Republicans of wanting them for political reasons.
Mr. Garland, in a May 15 letter to the president, said that the “committee’s needs are plainly insufficient to outweigh the deleterious effects that the production of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations in the future.”
President Biden’s counsel on May 16 accused House Republicans of wanting the tapes for political purposes.
“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal—to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes. Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate,” Ed Siskel, President Biden’s counsel, wrote in a letter to Mr. Comer and Mr. Jordan.
The Department of No Justice protecting communists / liberals in our Country and the Department of No Justice pursuing / prosecuting / persecuting innocent conservative Americans, who believe in our Constitution!
That is absolutely unacceptable,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez interjected. “How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person.”,,,,, Ocasio-Cortez is the Occasional Cotex that the democrats pull out to stop the bleeding and save the political feminine hygiene of their Femi-Nazi dominatrix run party, used to bandage their body politic when the real truth of their pandemics of infectious failure comes out. When you cannot win the argument, nor hide from the reality checks of your own policy failures,,,,just attack, then guilt trip your successful results oriented friendly neighborhood Conservative, whose very successes become the very causes of their own Trump derangement syndromes. This is the democrat party of good feelings that always overshadows good accomplishments not to mention social solutions to hard problems. They always use guilt to tilt the outcomes of their ever-losing arguments.
She’s one to talk about ‘criticizing those on physical appearance’..
” Green- Ocasio-Cortez-Spar During House Panel Meeting.” ( New York democrat,-Ocasio Cortez,-” Look Who’s Calling The Kettle Black.”! Author Unknown
One person’s insult is another person’s reality check. Your real friends will tell you the truth when you are a loser because they love you enough to want you to be a winner. Then in comes the government run sob sisters who promote and enable dependency which turns potential winners into controlled defeated people more easily managed who have to vote Democrat and social dependency programs to survive rather than acquiring the ability to SELF-govern their own lives as Americans were created to be. If the ugly truth you know that sets you free, is that in reality you are a failed loser, the people who want to keep you there in electoral captivity with fake adoration, are not the ones who are your friends. Democrats never address the ugly truths and call out the ugly people within their own party, and therefore never create solutions to the very problems they create. Trump on the other hand has insulted many a fellow conservative with their own ugly truths, and many have not only faced them, but changed their ways and joined the ranks of the politically perfected.
Libtards care NOT about reality, let alone a reality check!
Libtards are to reality, the opposite of what Lazarus was to the grave. They prefer to wrap themselves in their failed secular socialist mummy like bandages of bestiality and band-aid solutions to problems which they perceive as their spiritual comfort zones, and lay down with the walking spiritual dead whom they perceive as good examples of a fellow man. Reality is a rude awakening and a self-correcting resurrection they fear, and avoid at all costs, lest they become forced in that very reality check to put down their own self-created image of their Democrat party created deity of a self-god, whom eventually in the end, always proves inept, unreliable and weak indeed.
” Its hard to free fools from Chains they Revere..”
Author Unknown
“Suspose that i was an idiot, and i was a member of Con gress, but i repeat myself.”
Mark Twain
Good way to make friends and colleagues. NNNNOOOOOTTTTTT.
Greene getting really popular. If Mr. Trump gets in and really changes things, ( no term limits, no more elections, or any other radical moves to retain power) Greene may be good ally.
I’d rather have a rabid dog as a pet, than Marjory taylor greene as an ‘ally’.
Agree. She’s a little volatile and unpredictable. OK, make that VERY volatile and unpredictable.