Rashida Tlaib is on to something.
In a bizarre exchange Tuesday, the Michigan Democrat accused a vaping advocate of a Republican “conspiracy” after seeing her wink during a congressional hearing. “Are you a conspiracy theorist?” Tlaib asked, according to Fox News.
“Why were you winking?”
The House Oversight Committee was holding a hearing to address the recent controversy over e-cigarettes — which erupted after reports of deaths from lung disease linked to vaping — when Tlaib, who is against vaping, found the weirdest possible way to advocate her side.
The Democrat grilled Vicki Porter, a witness who claimed that vaping helped her quit smoking cigarettes. But Tlaib’s questions ventured into loony land when Porter, as Tlaib saw it, appeared to wink at a Republican lawmaker. Turning to Porter, Tlaib asked this (completely normal) question: “You call yourself a converted conservative and a reformed Marxist. Are you a conspiracy theorist?”
An unfazed, but clearly amused Porter replied that her politics were not relevant. But Tlaib didn’t let it go, observing that she noticed Porter was winking at Republican Glenn Grothman (WI), who introduced Porter as a “friend” earlier. Porter explained that she knew Grothman.
“I didn’t know what the winking was because I thought there was something like a conspiracy thing going on there,” an embarrassed Tlaib responded, prompting Porter to ask: “You think there’s a conspiracy in this hearing, ma’am?”
“No, I actually think people are speaking truth here, and you can provide information,” Tlaib said. Take a look at the exchange:
Rashida Tlaib: WHY WERE YOU WINKING
>”I know Glenn Grothman. He introduced me. He’s a friend.”
Rashida Tlaib: Oh. I thought there was a conspiracypic.twitter.com/fA9w90L9md
— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) September 24, 2019
Dems lose their minds
Tlaib went on to talk over the witness, saying that the “truth to you is very different from the majority of people in this room, who do believe that children are being targeted by vaping.” Porter interjected that vaping had helped her quit smoking.
“The truth for me is I quit smoking with e-cigarettes and so did 8 million other people,” Porter said, before Tlaib, not letting Porter get the last word, insisted that she was “still smoking.”
“I’m not smoking,” Porter said. “And I’m not lying under oath.”
Fed on a steady diet of feverish witch hunts against President Donald Trump, Russia, voter suppression, and ceaseless other Republican “conspiracies,” the Democrats seem to have well and truly lost their minds — not that much confirmation was needed in Tlaib’s case. Tlaib is mostly known for vulgar, rage-fueled tirades against Trump, including her infamous call to “impeach the motherf****r.”
It looks like Tlaib can’t even cross-examine a witness about e-cigarettes without lapsing into tinfoil hat territory. The truth is out there, as they say.
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