Marjorie Taylor Greene Nails Eric Swalwell in Hearing, Mass Outrage Ensues

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hit Rep. Eric Swalwell where it hurt the most during a hearing on Wednesday, causing mass outrage among Democrats in the chamber.

After Swalwell finished a lecture attacking Republicans as anti-Semitites, Greene took the microphone and accused him of having a “sexual relationship with a Chinese spy.” That sent things off the rails as the chair of the committee weighed whether to strike the words from the record.

After Greene’s remark, Rep. Daniel Goldman, who has had a checkered start to his congressional career (including insulting a mother whose son was murdered in New York City), moved to have the words struck from the record. When the Republican chairman accepted the motion and asked Goldman to state what he wanted to be struck, he refused at first, instead saying “everything” that Greene said. For reasons that are easy to ascertain, he didn’t want the truthfulness of the actual allegation addressed.

Goldman was then further pressed until he stated that he wanted the “accusations of an affair with a Chinese spy, those are engaging in personalities and those words should be taken down, and the gentlelady should not be able to speak anymore in this hearing.”