Internet weighs in as Jamie Raskin accuses Republicans who attended Trump trial of drinking before raucous House hearing

WASHINGTON, DC: Rep Jamie Raskin (D-Md), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, says it's "worth investigating" whether lawmakers drank alcohol before Thursday's heated session, following claims that non-committee members were inebriated.

“I didn’t see the drinking but the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury raised it, she said there are members drinking in the room, and that’s something that is worth investigating if there was in fact drinking taking place,” Raksin claimed on Fox News.

Per The Hill, Rep Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) reported that there were "some members in the room who are drinking inside the hearing room."

Stansbury stated that the lawmakers who were intoxicated were not members of the committee.

What happened at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing?

Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got into a heated argument during Thursday night's disruptive Oversight Committee hearing after Greene accused Rep Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) of wearing "fake eyelashes."

The committee was in the process of a markup hearing to consider holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.

The hearing devolved into bedlam with representatives from both parties shouting over one another for nearly an hour.

It started with a vote on whether to allow Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) to continue speaking during the hearing.

Greene queried if any Democrats on the panel were employing the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial.

Thursday’s hearing was delayed a few hours after several Republicans who sit on the panel traveled to New York to support the 77-year-old MAGA figurehead during his hush money trial proceedings.

Crockett probed why Greene would bring up Judge Merchan when the two began arguing and consequently got caught up in a derisive altercation.

Rep Crockett asked Greene if she knew “what we’re here for?”

“I don’t think you know what you’re here for,” Greene replied and added, “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”

Rep Raskin stepped in at that point, saying, "That's beneath even you, Ms. Greene."

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it "disgusting" and "absolutely unacceptable" to make remarks about another person's physical appearance.

Following a brief intermission, the two politicians resumed their heated conversation, with Greene denigrating Ocasio-Cortez's intelligence and declaring that she would "never" take back her comments.

Crockett then claimed that Greene had a “bleach blond, bad-built butch body.”

The Texas Democrat said the following day that she was certain that Greene’s original remark was “absolutely” racist.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle later suggested that alcohol may have been involved in the entire ordeal.

Rep Jamie Raskin squarely blamed Republican committee members who had traveled to New York from DC to support former President Trump in court, according to the Independent.

The Maryland Democrat said, “There was drinking going on in the hearing room on the Republican side.”

“You had a bunch of members who had skipped legislative votes yesterday in order to go to Donald Trump’s trial...I don’t even want to imagine how much drinking was taking place on the train or up in New York,” he alleged.

“And these members came back out of control. And the chairman did not rein them in, and the institution pays the price,” Raskin remarked.

Internet reacts as Jamie Raskin accuses Republicans who attended Trump trial of drinking

One X user remarked, "I hope they were drinking. Then they have an excuse for being idiots."

Another user said, "Yep. Just keep investigating each other and throwing tantrums . . in between burning piles of our money."

Another user wrote, "Open bar should be tax payer funded, like Ukraine."

One X user argued, "They ALL should be drug tested too."

Another user quipped, "Any time the Oversight Committee is in session, the entire freaking country is drinking."

A user tweeted, "What’s worth investigating is their finances and dark money connections."

 

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