Democratic Congressman Employs Giant Photo of Trump Allegedly Sleeping During House Oversight Committee Hearing

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) used a unique prop to draw attention during a recent House Oversight Committee hearing: a massive photo of former President Donald Trump allegedly asleep.

No, this was not the weirdest thing to emerge from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Thursday evening, as both Republican and Democratic members of Congress unleashed juvenile insults at each other’s appearances.

But Garcia used his time to speak purely about multiple reports that Trump had fallen asleep during his criminal trial over an alleged hush money election interference scheme to cover up an extramarital affair with Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election.

Rep. Garcia said:

Donald Trump. Now let’s look at public reporting. I’m only going to talk about public reporting. His criminal trial started on April 15th. And here’s a summary of the press reports. On his first day of his trial, Reuters reported that Trump appeared to doze off during jury selection. On April 16th, it was reported that Trump dropped his head inside the courtroom, keeping his eyes closed before jolting his head up right on April 19th, The New York Times reported. Trump’s eyes remain, quote, closed for extended periods during the final day of jury selection on April 22nd, MSNBC reported that Trump’s lawyers were fighting to keep him awake. On April 30th, NBC in The New York Times reported that Trump nodded off for significant portions of witness testimony and, as we all know, basically kept his eyes closed for hours and hours on end on May 9th. Trump’s eyes remained closed for many minutes, and Trump later, of course, those on and off. And the reports go on and on. May 13th, Trump with a quote a sleep. During the afternoon session on May 14th, Politico reported that Trump slouched in his seat and closes out. He closed his eyes and his mouth. Now here we have a photo of Donald Trump, of course, through some of his trial.

The moment was captured and posted on X, formerly Twitter, by self-described “Internet hooligan” ACYN.

Watch above via CSPAN.