Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib sparked controversy on Wednesday when she suggested Republican Mark Meadows was “racist” for asking Trump administration official Lynne Patton, who is African American, to refute Michael Cohen’s claim that his former employer Donald Trump is a racist.
“Just because someone has a person of color, a black person, working for them does not mean they aren’t racist,” Tlaib said Sunday, in comments clearly referencing Patton’s appearance at the hearing. “And it is insensitive, and… the fact that someone would use a prop, a black woman, in this chamber, in this committee [pausing to sigh] is alone racist in itself.”
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