After being accused of a “racist act” on Feb. 27, three instances emerged of Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) making birther comments about President Barack Obama. (Video: JM Rieger/Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
(This post has been updated with a third video unearthed by the Fix’s JM Rieger.)
The most emotionally fraught moment during the Michael Cohen hearing had nothing directly to do with President Trump’s former lawyer but was a tense exchange after one lawmaker accused another of engaging in a racist act by bringing a black woman to the hearing “as a prop.”
Though the issue was mostly resolved during the hearing, the aftershocks of it continued Thursday with the resurfacing of three videos from 2012 of Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) making birther comments about President Barack Obama and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) going on CNN to reiterate her belief that Meadows’s actions were insensitive to people of color.
Tlaib, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, was the last to speak at the end of the marathon Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday. She used her time to criticize Meadows — not by name — for bringing Lynne Patton, a black woman who has worked for the Trump family and now for the White House, to vouch for Trump not being racist.
View the complete February 28 article by Colby Itkowitz on The Washington Post website here.