Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC) stepped way over the line Wednesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing when she accused Hunter Biden of “white privilege.”
The president’s son showed up as a contempt of Congress citation was about to be voted on, according to NBC News.
Hunter Biden arrived on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning to attend in person congressional committee meetings called to hold him in contempt of Congress — setting up an unprecedented standoff on live television between the son of the president and House Republicans who have long sought his testimony as part of their impeachment inquiry into his father.
“You are the epitome of white privilege coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a Congressional subpoena to be deposed,” Mace told the president’s son.
That didn’t sit well with fellow committee member Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who lit into Mace.
“This is something that I just can’t get over. I can’t get over the gentle lady from South Carolina talking about white privilege.”
“It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a black woman, for you to talk about what white privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle.”
Crockett was far from finished excoriating Mace and the GOP.
“When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America,” she added. “You see, you want to talk about a two-tier justice system, and this is the only time that y’all have ever referenced it, when this country has a history, when it comes to black and brown folk, of having two separate sets of rules.”
Mace tried to defend herself with a half-baked reply of how she had worked to advance civil rights.
“I want to say, number one, as a former ranking member of the Civil Rights Subcommittee under Chairman Raskin last session, I take great pride as a white female Republican to address the inadequacies in our country. I come from a district where rich and poor is literally black and white, black versus white on most days.”
Mace also had this to say: “My largest jail in my district, which is the largest jail in the state of South Carolina, has had seven or eight deaths in the last two years. I was there with our Black and African American council members trying to get the right thing done. And I’ve stood with those Black families because I know the differences that they see day to day in their life. And I try to do the best that I can.”
Sure thing, Nancy. That’s just another version of “Some of my best friends are black,” and no one is buying your bullshit.
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