House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) was on the receiving end of a blistering scolding on Wednesday morning over his treatment of a Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday that led to threats from the controversial GOP lawmaker.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," ex-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) sat and watched a clip of Comer haranguing Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) for calling Donald Trump a grifter for cashing in personally from the Oval Office while also suggesting Elon Musk is the actual president of the U.S.
That led to Comer not only striking Frost's comments, but telling him he was no longer allowed to speak — combined with a threat to have him dragged out of the hearing.
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That set McCaskill off on an angry rant.
"I honestly have never in my life seen anything so outrageous as that," she began. "Now, I know there's a lot of things that are outrageous that impact American's lives every day so don't yell at me online. But this is really, really bad. "
"What they're saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you," she continued. "I mean, that's a really good way to lose the midterms."
Addressing the video clip, she added, "I hope that that goes viral, because the truth is, the only thing we know about what Musk and Trump are doing in all these federal agencies is what he puts on his privately owned social media. He owns it privately, I mean, it is something that he bought for billions of dollars, and now he is lifting it up."
"The head of advertising for X has threatened advertisers," she reported, that revelations from a Wall Street Journal article. "If they don't start buying ads, there will be consequences."
"You've got Trump actually selling crypto and you've got Trump who actually is letting people, anybody, buy these, this crypto and enrich him without us knowing who is buying it — how many bad guys are?" she asked. "They are grifters and they are using their positions to make lots of money, and that's a fact. And any member of Congress ought to be able to say it and that just infuriates me at that sleazy Comer for saying that."
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