Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) erupted on live television Monday over House Judiciary Committee Republicans she argues are destroying Americans' faith in its political institutions to help an "irrational child of a man," former President Donald Trump.
The committee is a powerful one, she noted, and one on which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once served.
"They have spent most hearings and most mark-ups tearing down our faith in our institutions," said Dean. "Literally."
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She recalled when the FBI or DOJ officials would come to testify, and Republicans like Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) or Johnson would spend their time shredding the departments.
"Then go out to a microphone like this and say, I can't understand why Americans just don't have faith in our institutions," Dean recalled. "They're a part of the problem. They are complicit alongside the least patriotic president we will ever see."
Protect Democracy director Ian Bassin compared Republicans to a parable about a small-town preacher who heard a report that a great flood was coming and he needed to seek safety. As the waters climbed higher, rescuers in a boat stopped by and asked if they could help him, he promised that God would save him.
When the water rose to the top of his house, he clung to the roof. A helicopter came offering to rescue him, but again, he refused, promising God would save him. When he drowned and arrived at the "Pearly Gates," he asked why and was told, "I sent you a weather report, a boat, and a helicopter. What are you doing here?"
Bassin then argued Republicans have been given a lifeline to save their party and themselves from Trump and the MAGA right.
Dean argued in today's politics,Trump comes before all else as was witnessed by Republicans' response to his criminal conviction.
"For public servants who swear to the Constitution and to the rule of law to be calling it ... 'a travesty of justice?' Will they find it a travesty of justice that Hunter Biden is sitting trial now?" she asked. "Or is this America?"
Dean said she found it strange that Republicans aligned themselves with a man of Trump's character.
"They're dealing with the most irrational child of a man. And yet they don't ever say, you know what, it's actually his behavior that he is being held to account for," Dean said.
"After all, this was behavior days before a national election where he wanted to bury a story that would have hurt his electoral prospects. They know that. They know the truth of it. And the jury has spoken."
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