Democrat Jasmine Crockett called out Republican Rep. Nancy Mace for criticizing President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, for his “white privilege” during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Wednesday.
Biden was present in the hearing room as the committee voted to approve a resolution to hold him in contempt of Congress.
“My first question is who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today? That’s my first question. Second question, you are the epitome of white privilege,” Mace said. “Coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here.”
While Mace’s fellow GOP members commended her remarks, Crockett was unimpressed.
“I just want to run it back through to the very beginning, because this is something that I just can’t get over. I just can get over the gentlelady from South Carolina talking about white privilege,” Crockett, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said in response. “It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a Black woman, for you to talk about what white privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle.”
Nothing to see here. Just Jasmine Crockett murdering the entire Republican party. pic.twitter.com/EMcYIDMlqf
— Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 (@KellyScaletta) January 10, 2024
“Ya’ll don’t know what white privilege looks like,” she said.
Biden did not hang around the hearing room to speak, exiting just minutes after he entered.
“I take great pride as a white female Republican to address the inadequacies in our country. I come from a district where rich and poor is literally Black and white, Black versus white on most days,” Mace responded, referencing her work on the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also took issue with what she referred to as Mace’s “very beautiful speech.”
Today, Rep. Mace said that she takes great pride in her work on the Civil Rights Subcommittee. Rep. AOC then reminded her that she led the elimination of that subcommittee. pic.twitter.com/EQJ0HPRke5
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) January 10, 2024
“But I think it’s so exemplary of the point that she also oversaw the elimination of Civil Rights Subcommittee on this committee, which really kind of gives the whole game away,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We show up, we give speeches, we give flowery words. But at the end of the day participate in the structural erosion of the rights and representation of people that are marginalized. Women, people of color, people that just need to see their due process and civil liberties protected in this country.”
