Jamie Raskin nails Whitaker on scamming veterans. Whitaker objects. Smackdown from Raskin follows.

[Miles Archer]

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Oof. @RepRaskin confronts Whitaker over his shady past, including scamming veterans.

After Whitaker objects, Raskin admonishes him that "this is my time. You don't run this committee!"

Link to tweet

[oasis]

1. Rep. Raskin did a number on Whit's sorry ass. Thanks for posting.

[agingdem]

3. Raskin is the man!!

and that's how you shut up a blathering republican tool!

[MagickMuffin]

2. Apparently Whitaker thinks he runs the committee

He's got what he thinks are big balls, however, they are the size of BB's.

[Duppers]

4. Those are his only 2 brain cells. 😉

[RT Atlanta]

5. And Nadler was having 'none of it' as well

Really appreciate their focus and shining a bright light on that scumbag.

[ooky]

6. They did a great job today. All of them.

It was refreshing watching people in Congress doing our work instead of the billionaire's work.

[calimary]

7. You can tell Whitaker is NOT used to this.

He’s not used to having to face some serious, credible questioning.

[robbob]

8. That's great, but all I heard on NPR

...was Whitaker telling the committee head that his 5 min we’re up and Rethugs laughing about it. Oh yeah, and that ReThug saying the committee was only there to perform a character assassination.

Whitaker getting called out and having his ass kicked is something I only found out on opening DU.

[iluvtennis]

9. Love the way Rankin held up pictures of newspapers articles with Whitaker's wrongdoings...

Whitaker couldn't even look at the articles. That's consciousness of GUILT

[gratuitous]

10. "Oh, here's one . . . "

Rankin sounded like he'd just found an agate on the beach. Yeah, Meatball didn't really want to hear about all that.

[Hassler]

11. "Whit-less" is performing for Cheetolini. Just like Lindseed and Judge Boof

[Farmergene]

12. Hahaha!

We've ripped up all those house GOP issued Get Out of Jail Fee passes. I'm just not sure the Swamp Rats have figured that out yet. Thank you. I listened to that exchange 5 times

[SeattleVet]

13. He managed to get through the entire session without actually answering a single question.

He got called out multiple times for trying to run out the clock with his rambling obfuscations.

Even the simplest questions that had simple yes/no answers were met with his "Well, let me say this about that..." bullshit. Several of the representatives had it put into the record that he was either not answering or that they took his dissembling for a "Yes".

It'll be interesting to see how he reacts when he gets served the upcoming subpoena and has to answer the questions or face jail time.

[LuckyLib]

14. Whitaker has a very short fuse. It doesn't take much to set him off. The truth

seems to do it.