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."
“I claim back my time”
The Democrats are disrespectful pigs who organized that approach before the hearing to give each a quotable rant.
NICE... I like that one.
These Democrat Congressional Traitors should be Hanged for Treason against The Republic they swore an Oath to Defend and Protect.
If they win in November, America as founded will cease to exist.
The Constitution will not protect us because the Courts have already shown us that they will let them run rampant with their Marxist Agenda.
Barr was sexy and hot?
Read too quickly.
“””””He was flanked by at least 10 staffers, not a person of color among them ”””””
Staff should be chosen by ability and knowledge —— not by color.
Arguably, they are quite competent and we underestimate them at our peril.
Their primary assignment in this instance was to build a basis for impeaching Barr, and secondarily to influence voters in the next presidential election.
Given the highly excitable character of much of the anti-MAGA, anti-Trump-inclined audience the behavior of the Dems was no doubt a net value.
Jayapal (Seattle’s congresscritter) is an ugly, socialist POS, send her back!
>>>House dems looked like fools<<<
How many People watched the Hearing live?
Most people got their viewpoint of the Show Trial through the Leftist Media Filter which did not allow the Democrats to look like the fools they were.
This^^^^^^^
After they repeatedly asked for their time back - wasn’t allowed a restroom break by Nadler.
After watching most of the dems acting directly hostile to Mr. Barr, I could not believe he took the verbal abuse they threw at him......I would have walked out after the first verbal broadside.............He impressed me.
[[Say Barr Was Sexist, Hostile at Hearing]]
Fake News- He wasn’t allowed to speak- so how could he have been any of that?
Labeled a defiler of a Congressman’s death by the mentioning of his passing in his written remarks he was—all systemic like.
The puritanical “how dare he” fell short.
Was he able to hold his pants up too easily during this show trial?
He did pipe up occasionally at disallowed intervals—name that tune.
Democrats are trying to dismiss their crude and disrespectful behavior. Sorry, we all witnessed it.
>> Dean said on MSNBC
>> [Jay-a-pal] told CNN
CNN is ATT
MSNBC is Comcast
I listened to almost the entire thing. They never gave him opportunities to answer. Several times he had to use time from the republican side in order to actually get to answer the stupid charges made by the previous democrat.
The Hearing summarized:
Republicans: Criminal conspiracy, Sedition, war on federal government, failure of democrat leadership.
Democrats: Orange man bad.
It was very easy to see who was hostile at that interrogation. All that was missing was a rubber hose for the lunatic Democrats to pass around.
Anyone with an ounce of fairness who watched that circus had to come away thinking that the Dems were beyond being rude, crude and dumb. What a sad day to see public officials operate in such an ignorant and disrespectful manner.
What a load of baloney! The DUMBOcrats wouldn’t let Barr speak, then pulled the disrespectful shenanigan of not giving him a 5 minute break. They are about as classy and deserving of any respect as the garbage you have to scrape off the bottom of the can after it’s been sitting out in summer weather for a week.
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