A House Dem Ate Some Skittles During IRS Hearing to Talk About Refugees

Raising questions about Donald Trump‘s tax returns wasn’t the only thing Democrats did at the IRS hearings today. One of them ate Skittles.

Luis Gutierrez chewed a bit and told the IRS commissioner, “Thank you… I’m just gonna finish up this Skittle. I really love Skittles, ’cause as you see, they come orange, yellow, red, and purple. All the colors.”

.@RepGutierrez munches on Skittles during House Judiciary hearing: "Every now and then I'll get a bad Skittle, but I don't ban them all." pic.twitter.com/0tPp36ypt9

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 21, 2016

He took out his Skittles and touted how “a lot of people on our side of the aisle” like that diverse mixture of colors. Gutierrez declared, “Every now and then, I’ll get a bad Skittle. But I don’t ban them all.”

And then he pivoted to talking about young women fleeing horrors in their home countries, refuting Donald Trump Jr.‘s tweet about Skittles and refugees.

Watch above (and make sure you stick around to the end to see the effortless pivot to the actual subject of the hearing), via ABC.

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