Nigel Farage shrugs off Democratic attacks during heated congressional testimony on free speech

Washington Examiner ^ | September 3, 2025 | Brady Knox

[MinorityRepublican]

United Kingdom Reform Party leader Nigel Farage shrugged off spirited Democratic attacks during a testimony about free speech in front of the House Judiciary Committee.

Farage was the star witness in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the effect of U.K. law on U.S. free speech rights, which came amid wider Republican scrutiny of the country. His testimony was quickly diverted to fending off spirited attacks from Democrats, however, especially House Judiciary ranking member Jamie Raskin (MD). In his opening address, he blasted Farage as everything from a President Donald Trump sycophant, to an opponent of online child safety, to a bedfellow of tyrants and autocrats worldwide.

“He should go and advance the positions he’s taking here in Congress today, in [the U.K.] Parliament, which is meeting today, if he’s serious about it. To the people of the U.K., who think this [Russian President Vladimir] Putin-loving, free speech imposter, and Trump’s sycophant will protect freedom in your country,” Raskin said. “Come on over to America and see what Trump and [Make America Great Again] are doing to destroy our freedom: kidnap college students off the street, ban books from our libraries, militarize our police and unleash them against our communities, take over our universities, wreck our professional civil service, and turn the government into a money-making machine for Trump and his family.

[BigEdLB]

That kind of TDS Raskin can take meds for

[Dahoser]

Those RAT jackasses are obviously not acquainted with Farage's dealings with their counterparts at the European Parliament whom he regularly torched. My favorite is the morning after the Brexit vote in 2016 when he not only took a victory lap, but told them hilariously at one point, "Now, now I know, I know that virtually none of you have ever done a proper job in your lives, or worked or worked in business or worked in trade or indeed ever created a job."

I just watched his exchange with that ignoramus Hugh "Guam gonna tip over" Johnson and Farage was running circles around him. And in his opening statement, Farage went right at that clymer Jamie Raskin saying, "I'm delighted to reacquaint with the charming Mr. Raskin." The RATS picked the wrong guy to play verbal FAFO with.

[Fledermaus]

Or a straight jacket

[irishjuggler]

It’s ironic... Trump is such a good friend and ally to Israel... and yet Jews like Raskin, SchifF, Pritzker and Goldman are really second to no one in the political world in terms of the virulence and nastiness of their TDS.

[MinorityRepublican]

Throwback:

Nigel Farage, the new leader of Reform, infuriated EU bureaucrats as he led a group of British MEP’s proudly waving British flags during Brexit.

The EU Parliament then cut off his microphone after he stood up to celebrate the UK officially leaving the EU. pic.twitter.com/S7tY8g3zZg— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 3, 2024

[SharpRightTurn]

Raskin is one of the nastiest pieces of work I have ever witnessed in Congress, and that encompasses a whole lot of jerks.

[sauropod]

I hope Farage verbally eviscerates the loathsome RatSkin.

[Carriage Hill]

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