Rep. Lauren Boebert Gets Absolutely Schooled By Jamie Raskin Using Trump's Own Words

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) offered Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) some receipts after she tried to rewrite history on former President Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“You’re right. President Trump was in office when the COVID virus was released from a lab in China,” Boebert said in a spiel criticizing pandemic-era mask and vaccine mandates during a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday. “And he tried to make that very clear that this came from China, and reporters regularly dismissed that.”

In his rebuttal, Raskin noted that Boebert had left out some key information ― including the fact that Trump repeatedly praised Chinese President Xi Jinping and China’s grasp over the situation as the virus was first spreading across the country and the world.

Raskin: Trump on more than 20 different occasions defended the performance of the Chinese government in terms of COVID.. so if there is a problem with the Chinese government unleashing the virus.. you would have to pin that on your favorite President Donald Trump not Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/S2d0jflOeq — Acyn (@Acyn) February 28, 2023

“I appreciate the gentlelady’s passion. There’s two facts that she should perhaps be alerted to,” he began. “One is that Donald Trump, on more than 20 different occasions, defended the performance of the Chinese government and specifically President Xi in terms of his treatment of COVID-19 and said he was doing a ‘wonderful job’ and a ‘great job’ and they were working closely and they were constantly in touch.

“So, if there’s a problem with the Chinese government unleashing a virus ― which has not been proven anywhere, but it certainly could be true ― you would have to pin that on your favorite president, Donald Trump, not on Joe Biden.”

Secondly, Raskin noted that Trump’s White House adviser on COVID-19, Deborah Birx, wrote in her book that Trump’s pandemic policies cost Americans hundreds of thousands of lives.

“So you don’t have to believe anybody on the Democratic side of the aisle. That’s Donald Trump’s own special adviser on COVID-19,” Raskin said.

More than 1 million people in the U.S. died of COVID-19. Experts have suggested that a large chunk of those deaths could have been prevented had the Trump administration acted sooner and more appropriately to curb the spread.

abecedorkian on March 1st, 2023 at 03:36 UTC »

My favorite part is when he quickly inserts "and I'm sure you read her book"

AceCombat9519 on March 1st, 2023 at 02:58 UTC »

Rep Boebert is no match for a Constitutional Scholar Rep Raskin because in the constitution the founding fathers designed it to prevent a Tyrant like Trump from abusing the government. Boebert seems to accept a revisionist History view

Much_Schedule_9431 on March 1st, 2023 at 02:48 UTC »

Honestly how can the US have people of such astronomically different qualifications doing essentially the same job? Like one guy is a legal scholar doing his duty whilst fighting cancer and the other is a high school dropout that makes it her career to let people know she likes guns. Wtf.