Consultant Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Jussie Smollett had been each trending on X after the previous claimed a “white man” had stopped her from getting on the ‘members-only’ elevator within the Capitol constructing.
Lee made the feedback throughout an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. She started by asserting that “institutional racism is within the DNA of this nation.”
She then pivoted to a narrative that she claimed is an instance of “private racism” she had suffered as a member of Congress.
“I used to be strolling … to the Capitol and a person, a white man, stopped me and informed me I couldn’t get into the members’ elevator,” she claimed with out proof.
“And he blocked me from entering into the elevator and informed me I used to be not a member of Congress and it was for members solely. I mentioned, ‘Sir, I’m a member of Congress,’” she continued. “And I confirmed him my pin and he mentioned, ‘Whose pin did you steal?’”
Rep. Barbara Lee: “I used to be strolling to the Capitol and a person stopped me, a white man, and informed me I couldn’t get into the members’ elevator…He informed me it was for members solely. I mentioned, ‘Sir, I’m a member of Congress’ and confirmed him my pin. And he mentioned, ‘Whose pin did you steal?'” pic.twitter.com/RGhOpfTMjM
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 19, 2024
Folks Had been Skeptical Of Barbara Lee’s Declare
Now, so far as we all know, Barbara Lee didn’t embellish her story with a point out that she was heading to Subway at 2 am in a -20-degree windchill when a “white man” out of the blue yelled, “That is MAGA nation!”
Nevertheless it sort of felt like she was one step away from doing so. And social media customers on X observed, with Jussie Smollett trending alongside the congresswoman.
“I’m gonna go together with this by no means truly occurred. How very Jussie Smollett of you,” one individual wrote.
Conservative documentary filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza famous that Lee’s story “has that Jussie Smollett ring of inauthenticity” and added that Collins’ “uncritical response provides to the ambiance of political fakery.”
Others recommended that had the incident truly taken place, it’s extremely unlikely that Lee wouldn’t report it to anyone within the constructing and even much less probably that they wouldn’t be capable to pull video of the alternate.
With a purpose to entry members’ elevators, one must get by way of numerous safety checkpoints with a employees I.D. or Members’ pin, so it ought to be straightforward to root out the alleged racist. It’s somebody who works on the Capitol.
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Lee Tried To Crash A Congressional Listening to
When she’s not channeling her interior Jussie Smollett, Barbara Lee is busy channeling her interior Hunter Biden. No, not ‘crackhead’ Hunter. ‘Crashing congressional hearings for consideration’ Hunter.
Lee tried to disrupt the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the Home Overseas Affairs Committee on Thursday, solely to be turned away by Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL).
“At present, I exercised my authority as Subcommittee Chairwoman to not enable an off-Committee Member to unfold communist propaganda throughout my Cuba listening to,” Salazar wrote on X. “Members are usually not entitled to affix any Committee proceedings with out full consent of the Committee Members.”
Lee posted video of her getting the boot after she tried to interrupt official congressional enterprise or, as some have referred to as it, staged an rebel.
I used to be simply kicked out of a Home Overseas Affairs Subcommittee listening to on Cuba coverage as a result of the Republican Chair didn’t like my views.
I’d share the livestream, however Republicans minimize out the sound after I stood as much as defend myself & name them out. pic.twitter.com/eqV1ymor9j
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) January 18, 2024
The committee listening to was referred to as to debate the Biden administration’s lenient insurance policies on Cuba.
Lee has been a famous sympathizer of the late Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro. The congresswoman took the event of his dying to reward Castro, calling him a worldwide chief who deserves to be mourned.
“We have to cease and pause and mourn his loss,” she mentioned, including he was a “good man” who “led a revolution in Cuba that led social enhancements for his individuals.”
