Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: 'Some of them blindly worship convicted felons'

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) blasted Republican members of Congress for their blind "worship" of convicted felons like former President Donald Trump.

At a Monday hearing with former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Raskin said Republicans did not want to find the true origin of COVID-19.

"The claim was essentially that you tried to cover up the possibility of there having been a laboratory leak, which, of course, is perfectly possible," Raskin explained. "And if this committee were doing its job, we could actually be working to advance the investigation of that. But they would rather assert that you tried to cover up this possibility."

Fauci told Raskin that he spent his entire professional life trying to find the cause of infectious diseases.

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"Well, Dr. Fauci, I want to join my colleague from Florida in apologizing to you that some of our colleagues in the United States House of Representatives seem to want to drag your name through the mud," Raskin said. "They're treating you, Dr. Fauci, like a convicted felon."

"Actually, you probably wish they were treating you like a convicted felon. They treat convicted felons with love and admiration," he added. "Some of them blindly worship convicted felons."

Watch the video below from House Oversight.