Wednesday’s hearing before the House Oversight Committee on influence peddling by the Biden family lasted nearly eight hours. There was a lot of talk about lies, especially regarding the testimony of key witnesses Tony Bobulina and Jason Galanis, former associates of Hunter Biden. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) certainly had a bizarre exchange with Bobulinski, asking him what crimes he had seen President Joe Biden commit, only to cut him off when she didn’t like his answer and insisted that “RICO is not a crime,” which she even doubled down on. However, one member in particular, Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), knew something about the lies. She used all her time not to question any of the witnesses, not even the minority-called Lev Parnas, but to spew a series of lies against former and potentially future President Donald Trump, all while ironically speaking about “indisputable facts.”
Soon enough, Brown launched into a tirade about Trump, presenting a rather one-sided view that was, as Benny Johnson aptly put it, “total [Trump Derangement Syndrome] breakdown.”
Brown’s every word screamed far-left bias, but a significant portion of her remarks were completely wrong and have been completely debunked and debunked in order to address them in the order in which she made them.
While Democrats, including DNC and Biden re-election officials, love to stoke fears that Trump will be, as Brown put it, “a self-proclaimed dictator from day one,” he was clearly joking and also made it clear that they were worded “jokingly” when he was asked by Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on such remarks.
The congresswoman then claimed that Trump “wants to denounce the constitution,” but that was all at an early stage, and the ridicule didn’t end there, as she similarly claimed that when meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Trump was “to embrace[ing]him to “discuss their diabolical plans to destroy our democracy.”
Brown’s claims were not just about comments and actions in recent days, weeks or months, but also about years ago. Yes, she referenced the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, describing Trump as “the one who called out neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches and chanting, ‘Jews will not replace us’ good people.” However, she couldn’t even get the phrase right because the debunked narrative claimed that Trump called them “great people.”
In fact, the full context of his remarks shows that Trump made a very clear reference to this issue NO thus referring to neo-Nazis. He also spoke about people concerned about the removal of the laws. What’s even more damning about such a false narrative is that Trump made it clear: “I’m not talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, because they should be completely condemned – but there were a lot of people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, OK? And the press treated them completely unfairly.”
The truth didn’t stop Biden from following this narrative in 2020 and winning the primary and general elections, it won’t stop him in 2024and it doesn’t seem to be stopping Brown.
But the “good people” in Charlottesville weren’t even the oldest issue to be addressed. Brown lamented that Trump “called Mexicans rapists” – a phrase that appeared in June 2015 when he announced his campaign to warn about illegal immigration and that Mexico was “not sending its best.” Indeed, under Trump, we have gone from a much safer border to record high numbers of encounters at a wide open border, as well as disturbing realities of illegal immigrant crime, including rape.
Brown also addressed Trump’s “rape victim” words, referring to E. Jean Carroll. However, a jury found that Trump was liable for sexual abuse, and Trump is suing ABC News and “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos for defamation after Stephanopoulos claimed that Trump was found “responsible for rape.”
Returning to another debunked narrative that Biden used, among others: earlier this week, Brown claimed that Trump “called POWs losers.” As another lie about Trump during his administration that just won’t die, Trump detractors say that called those buried in Normandy “suckers” and “losers”, and also said that he did not want to see them during his 2018 trip, although was overthrown via Snopes.
As for how Trump allegedly “repeatedly promoted political and physical violence,” she also cited a specific example from last weekend, when Biden’s re-election campaign took Trump’s comments about “bloodshed” if Trump did not win the election out of context. These remarks clearly meant the economic aspect, particularly of the American automotive industry, which makes even more sense considering that Trump was in Dayton, Ohio. This becomes even clearer if you look at the full remarks of Trump’s speech. Not only was Brown wrong, but he also bragged that he was from Ohio, which should have suggested that she especially should have known better.
Brown then waded into the COVID conspiracy, claiming that Trump “initially denied that COVID was deadly and ultimately suggested testing injecting bleach into our bodies to kill the respiratory virus that has killed 1 million people in the United States.” Even liberal fact-checkers I admitted that no, Trump did not suggest bleach.
Brown also attacked Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as did other committee members, some of whom wanted to compare Kushner to Hunter Biden as a distraction. However, as we wrote before the hearing in an article that was entered into the record during the hearing: “Actually, Jared Kushner and Hunter Biden are nothing alike. Here are the facts.”
Just in case everyone doubting that Brown meant all this, she began a sort of lecture.
“If any of this sounds crazy, that’s because it is. This may seem unbelievable, but it is true All TRUE. These are facts, indisputable factsit’s a known thing and proven to be true,” she said. “This may be an alien concept to some of my colleagues, but to those of us who still have a relationship with the truth,” she continued, adding “his is not an exhaustive list of inappropriate, unethical and questionable behavior by the maniacal manipulator at Mar-a-Lago, because I could go on, but I only have five minutes, and yet here we are again trying to make sense of nonsense. “I would humbly and respectfully ask my Republican colleagues on this committee to stop beating themselves up and get one of them’s endorsement because millions of people rely on you to defend our fragile democracy,” Brown continued before stepping down.
Democrat Shontel Brown is having a total TDS meltdown 🤣 pic.twitter.com/BAZW3uNHWw
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 20, 2024
What significance did these comments have for the hearing? Beginning her nonsensical tirade, Brown took Democrats’ thesis of “chasing Russian disinformation campaigns” and claimed that House Republicans were “grasping at straws.”
Many members exploited the Russian deception throughout the hearing, and earlier in the case of Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), given that he memorably appeared in a Vladimir Putin mask, but in Brown’s case it was even more unforgettable bearable given her long, easily debunked tirade.
Brown missed the full five minutes of her allotted time and devoted the remaining seconds to Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who only helped further propagate such debunked arguments by thanking her for “such an eloquent and compressed recitation of what we have been living with for the last several years.
The congresswoman actually responded with the quoted post, claiming that “[t]the real madness is to overlook and celebrate everything I have mentioned,” although such an accusation quite clearly refers to the problematic points of her statement.
The real disorder is overlooking and celebrating everything I have mentioned https://t.co/Q98DK2lMhf
– Representative. Shontel Brown (@RepShontelBrown) March 20, 2024
