A heated exchange between Rep. Mark Meadows
Mark Randall MeadowsFBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA Trump: I am 'looking hard' at bipartisan infrastructure plan of -2 trillion Trump's pursuit of infrastructure deal hits GOP roadblock MORE (R-N.C.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Harbi TlaibTlaib, Green to deliver petition from over 10 million calling for Trump's impeachment Dem candidates complicate Pelosi's handling of impeachment The Memo: Pelosi's 'tone-deaf' remarks raise ire of Team Trump MORE (D-Mich.) prompted Twitter users on Wednesday to resurface comments Meadows made in 2012 about sending former President Obama "home to Kenya or wherever it is."
Steve Morris of the left-leaning media watchdog Media Matters for America posted a video to Twitter on Wednesday that showed then-candidate Meadows pledging that 2012 "is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is."
Here's Mark Meadows, who just sidetracked the entire House Oversight Committee to assure him he's not racist, saying that "2012 is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is" pic.twitter.com/90L1xnWf6v
— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) February 27, 2019
Meadows was elected to the House that year, while Obama won a second term in the White House. Meadows's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill on Wednesday night.
The clip was retweeted by several high-profile Democratic supporters, including actress Sarah Silverman, filmmaker Michael Moore and Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson.
This is the man who brought a black employee of Trump’s to the hearing today to prove Trump isn’t racist. Mark Meadows is a fucking PIG https://t.co/hx3T6xJH59
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) February 27, 2019
Remember, this is Mark Meadows. https://t.co/QFs9gHuv9I
— deray (@deray) February 28, 2019
Yeah, Mr. Meadows, you’re an effin’ racist. Get it all out of your system bro because a country like ours which is nearly 70% female, people-of-color and/or young adults is taking power—and the day of the angry, racist, white man is soon going to be a thing of the past, farewell. https://t.co/gyi4mHzfhh
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) February 27, 2019
In related news, I wonder how Rep Meadows rationalizes his “I’m not racist” stance with his questioning the legitimacy of America’s first Black President b/c “he was born in Kenya or wherever he’s from” stance?pic.twitter.com/8B7F591EcB
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) February 27, 2019
Wild. I had no idea Meadows made birther comments. https://t.co/r4Mc7ZGkeP
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) February 28, 2019
The video was posted after Meadows clashed with Tlaib on Wednesday during Michael Cohen's congressional hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
Tlaib condemned Meadows's use of a statement by a single black woman working in the Trump administration to disprove allegations of racism against President Trump
Donald John TrumpTrump rips Comey after CNN town hall: 'He brought the FBI down' White House says US, China trade talks to continue Friday Giuliani traveling to Ukraine to push for probes that could be 'very helpful' to Trump MORE as a "racist act."
"Just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them does not mean that they aren't racist," Tlaib said during Wednesday's hearing.
"And it is insensitive ... the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee, is alone racist in itself," she continued.
Meadows fired back at Tlaib, asking her remarks to be stricken from the congressional record.
"There’s nothing more personal to me than my relationship … my nieces and nephews are people of color, not many people know that," Meadows said.
Tlaib then clarified her remarks at the request of Rep. Elijah Cummings
Elijah Eugene CummingsJudge sets Trump lawsuit over congressional subpoenas on track for quick decision Dems struggle to make Trump bend on probes Black caucus leader Karen Bass finds herself in high demand MORE (D-Md.), the committee's chairman.
“As everybody knows in this chamber, I’m pretty direct. If I wanted to say that I would have,” the Michigan congresswoman said. “But that’s not what I said.”
