Representative. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Sunday defended his claim that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene(R-Ga.)’s comments toward her during a House committee meeting were “racist.”
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Crockett explained his comments in response to Greene by saying, “I think your false eyelashes are getting in the way of what you’re reading” during a committee hearing Thursday.
“MAGA has historically been on social media doing things that say, ‘Oh, she’s black with eyelashes and nails and hair, so she’s ghetto,’” Crockett told host Jake Tapper. “It’s accepting a racist trope.”
Women of all colors wear false eyelashes, Crockett said, but the problem was that Greene targeted her specifically.
Crockett said that although she signed up to be a member of Congress, that didn’t mean she had to take a position where she would be “disrespected.”
The House Oversight Committee panel met to discuss contempt proceedings against Attorney General Merrick Garland, a target of House Republicans, but quickly erupted into chaos when members began attacking each other over their appearance physics and intelligence.
Crockett responded, without naming her, attacking Greene’s “bleached blonde, poorly built, masculine body.”
At the start of the program, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) called it “absurd” that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez implied he was a bully following his comments about the turbulent interaction.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile gave Crockett some advice: “Don’t take the bait.”
