Hot Mic Picks Up Frustrated Rep At Biden Impeachment Hearing: ‘You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!’
A member of the House was caught on a hot mic scoffing at a hearing in the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and other family members.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee held another hearing in an impeachment inquiry that is widely seen as faltering, even among conservative-leaning media outlets and Republicans. The hearing featured testimony from witnesses like Tony Bobulinski and Lev Parnas, and fireworks from the parties.
At one point, a hot mic picked up what sounded like two frustrated Democrats scoffing at the hearing as they awaited a vote on whether to subpoena Bobulinski’s Blackberry:
REP. JAMES COMER: Mr. Goldman, you’re out of order. We’re in suspension here, waiting for the clerk to come so we can take the vote that your side of the aisle requested!
UNIDENTIFIED REP 1: You can’t make this stuff up!
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ: You can’t.
REP. JAMES COMER: This is Jurassic Park! Jeez!
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ: Mr.. Ranking member. Mr. Ranking member–.
Elsewhere during the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) attacked the investigation in scathing opening remarks, during which he said “Today, the good chairman and his ace MAGA detectives have finally jumped the shark. The comedy of errors comes crashing to an end as House Republicans and more than a dozen Biden districts beg for mercy, and the committee throws a flabby Hail Mary pass three weeks after the Super Bowl is over.”
In another exchange, Raskin cut in during Bobulinski’s opening remarks to object that the witness “called members of this committee liars” but was overruled:
Comer: But please, Mr. Bobulinski, please– Come to order. Mr. Bobulinski, Mr. Bobulinski, please proceed. Please proceed. I apologize for the disruption from the minority.
Bobulinski: Okay.
Raskin: Well, Mr. Chairman, save his time, but he called members of this committee liars. And I just want to know whether the order and decorum requirements of House Rule 11 apply to witnesses appearing before the committee. Does it apply or does it not?
Bobulinski: Should I address? I don’t…
Comer: There’s decorum from the members. We’ve asked for that. There’s no language that I’m aware of pertaining to a witness.
Raskin: Thank you.
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