Posted on 07/30/2020 9:38:38 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
House Democrats Madeleine Dean (Penn.) and Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) accused Attorney General William Barr of being sexist and hostile during his contentious Judiciary Committee testimony on Tuesday.
Democrats repeatedly interrupted Barr at the hearing and condemned him as corrupt, racist, and dangerous, but Dean said Wednesday that Barr was "disrespectful" and particularly mistreated women.
"We have to hold him accountable to the American people," Dean said on MSNBC. "You saw his affect yesterday. He was disrespectful, spoke over top of every one of us. In particular, he spoke over women. He was flanked by at least 10 staffers, not a person of color among them…. It was so disrespectful, the way he approached Congress, the way he approached our committee."
The Washington Free Beacon compiled a montage of Democrats repeatedly saying they were "reclaiming my time" during their testy interactions with Barr on Tuesday. On several occasions, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee gave Barr time during their questioning periods to respond to Democratic charges.
Jayapal allowed Barr to speak for less than 60 seconds during their six-minute exchange, and he never spoke longer than 10 seconds without being interrupted by her. Yet she told CNN that she had to control her time, because otherwise Barr might testify too much.
"Every witness knows that the way to get away from answering questions is to just be very slow in your answers, to thank the Congress members for that excellent question, to not answer, to obfuscate, because you only have five minutes," she said. "You have to take control of your time, because if you don't, the witness will do it."
She added Barr was a "hostile witness."
Jayapal used much of her time to criticize Barr over the federal dispersal of protesters in Lafayette Park outside the White House on June 1. She accused him of a double standard by not similarly dispersing right-wing protesters at the Michigan State Capitol in May during demonstrations against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D.) and her coronavirus lockdown orders.
Barr noted the White House is a federal building while Michigan's capitol falls under the state's jurisdiction, but Jayapal interrupted to charge him with prioritizing Trump's "agenda."
Boo f’n hoo. :-)
Wow, the V Card and the B card. Surprised they didn’t accuse him of mansplaining too.
He barely spoke! These people are on another planet and are some of the most incompetent flakes I have ever seen running Congress.
Accusing their enemy of exactly what they do...TYPICAL DEMOCRAT CRAP...choke on it.
Did he call the biotch from PA “sweetie” or something? Did he tell jerjer to kiss his a$$? If anyone knows hostile, it was the assclown dems on the committee. I only caught a few glimpses but they gave new meaing to the word RUDE.
Respect is earned and you have been found wanting.
Lie.
We're all people of color....varying shades. Never allow the Left to define the terms.
The entire things was recorded at very high resolution. They can certainly show examples of his hostility if they like.
It’s funny how people can see the same thing and draw very different conclusion.
My interpretation of what went on is that Barr was being cross-examined by the Democrats on that committee. If anything they were talking over him rather than the other way around. If anything they were hostile questioners, as one might see in court when a witness is cross-examined.
Solution: Barr and everyone else from the Trump Admin should refuse to appear before these baboons lest the baboons get offended when someone tries to respond to their animalistic screeching.
House dems looked like fools. I’m really not interested in what they say.
he was probably racist too!
Can’t we come up with ANYTHING new?
The three primary debate tools of the left:
Ad hominem attack
Deflection
Projection.
They were not interested in his answers.
They just wanted to be videoed asking the questions
for election ad purposes.
Disrespectful? They never gave him the chance to answer any of their questions.
She supports a sexual assaulter, and pedo Joe Biden, and she’s complaining about William Barr?
While Dems were all sweetness and light?
That wasn't hard to do because you stupid b*tches wouldn't shut up.
Yeah, HE was hostile. That’s rich.
Please allow me to translate:
We didn’t lay a glove on him!
WWWAAAAAAAAAA!!
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