'Grifter': All hell breaks loose in James Comer's hearing when Dem insults Trump
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) threatened to have Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) escorted from a hearing by the sergeant-at-arms after he repeatedly called President Donald Trump a "grifter."
During a House Oversight hearing on Tuesday, Frost criticized the government cuts being made at the recommendation of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
"You want to talk about making cuts to things like Medicaid, which, by the way, over 35 percent of all the children in this country are covered under Medicaid," Frost said. "People like the grifter-in-chief Trump and President Musk are openly using their public offices to enrich themselves to the tune of billions of dollars."
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"So if we want to look at waste, fraud, and abuse, which I'm down to do, why is there complete silence on the other side of the aisle about looking at the complete grifter that is the president of the United States and the richest man on the earth, which is looking into things like Social Security and different things like that?" he asked. "Why don't we investigate the real corruption?"
At that point, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) called for Frost's words to be removed from the record.
"Would you like to revise your remark with respect to improperly identifying the president of the United States?" Comer asked Frost.
"I will say President Musk and Grifter-in-Chief Trump," Frost replied.
"If I wanted to challenge someone to a fight, they would know it!" Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) shouted for reasons that were not immediately clear.
Comer gave Frost another chance to revise his remarks, but the Democrat continued to insist Trump was "grifting" from the American people.
"I will say the President is grifting because you spent the last two years saying President Biden was corrupt," he said.
"Take down his words!" Mace shouted.
"I can say that Trump is grifting," Frost insisted. "What I will withdraw is calling him grifter-in-chief. That is what I will withdraw."
Comer, however, ruled that Frost was out of order.
"The chair sustains the point of order, and the words in question are ordered stricken from the transcript of this proceeding," Comer said.
"I want to say it's despicable that this committee is going to silence me," Frost said before his microphone was cut off.
"The gentleman's words have been taken down," Comer noted. "He is not permitted to speak for the rest of the hearing. Mr. ranking member, I'm going to have the sergeant at arms remove him if he doesn't refrain."