Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin on Thursday slammed Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for comparing NATO to neo-Nazis and referred to her as a “cheerleader for the insurrection.”
In a passionate floor speech ahead of a vote on a bill to streamline the process to lend weapons to Ukraine, Raskin, a member of the Jan. 6 committee probing the events around the Capitol riot that aimed to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory, held little back against Greene.
Raskin condemned what he called anti-Ukraine rhetoric from the first-term congresswoman as the Eastern European nation fends off Russia’s invasion.
“We are here to debate aid to the people of Ukraine defending themselves against a massive invasion by Vladimir Putin and his army. Then, the minority puts up the distinguished gentlelady from Georgia who does not mention Ukraine once,” Raskin said. “She does not mention the thousands of Ukrainian civilians who have been slaughtered by Putin’s army. She does not mention more than 100 Ukrainian children who have been shot and killed by the [Russian] army.”
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“Instead, she talks about a massive invasion at the border, a massive invasion which their own speakers have said today, hundreds of thousands of people have been apprehended in,” Raskin added. “That’s very different from a military invasion. The one in Ukraine? Of course, the gentlelady’s not going to talk about that. She had a lot to say the other day when she heckled me continuously when I came to the floor. It was like The Rocky Horror Picture Show in here with her chanting about the Russia hoax and Russia this and Russia that.”
Raskin, who was a manager in the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, then took aim at Greene for her remarks about pro-Trump rioters that day who breached the building in an attempt to derail the certification of the 2020 presidential results.
“She talks about NATO Nazis. Has it come to this? The gentlelady talked about a massive invasion,” Raskin said. “We had a massive invasion of our own chamber, and she continues to be a cheerleader for the insurrection and deny what happened here.”
Raskin’s remarks were later removed from the record at the request of a GOP member for violating the parliamentarian’s rules on decorum in debate.
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“The House rules do forbid engaging in personalities, and I accept the advice of the parliamentarian that I used unparliamentary language to make my point. And I certainly respect the necessity for parliamentary decorum,” the Raskin said.
Following Raskin’s speech, Greene tagged Raskin in a Twitter thread from March in which she alleged that “NATO has been supplying the neo-Nazis in Ukraine with powerful weapons and extensive training on how to use them.”
