‘You Did The Same Thing!’ Jake Tapper Calls Out Jasmine Crockett For How She Condemned MTG’s Childish Insult

CNN’s Jake Tapper called out Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) for responding to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) childish insult with one of her own.

During a late-night House Oversight Committee hearing last Thursday, chaos ensued after Greene insulted Crockett’s “fake eyelashes.” Crockett responded by asking committee chair James Comer (R-KY), “I’m just curious. To better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?” — which caused even more disorder.

On Sunday’s State of the Union, Tapper said, “So, just to explain to our viewers, she said what she said, which was a personal attack on your appearance. And then the Republicans refused to take her words away, because they said it wasn’t a personal attack. And, then, you said something about — you didn’t mention her name, but you obviously were talking about Congresswoman Greene —  ‘bleach-blonde, bad built, butch body.'” Tapper continued:

TAPPER: So it’s tough to say, but you’ve really embraced what you said. You’re printing it on SWAG. I think we have an image of the shirt here that you’re selling to help raise money to elect Democrats. How would you respond to say it’s inappropriate to respond to an attack on somebody’s physical appearance — and you hear Congresswoman AOC say, you know, “You shouldn’t be attacking somebody’s physical appearance,” but then you did the same thing. You attacked her physical appearance.

CROCKETT: So, to be clear, what I asked for was clarification on the ruling. If her words were taken down, that meant that she was going to have to leave the committee for the evening, which actually would have helped everybody out because the source of the chaos is always Marjorie Taylor Greene. But the chairman was concerned about his votes. He was concerned about whether or not he would be able to move forward with contempt. And, so, therefore —

TAPPER: It’s contempt for…Attorney General Garland.

CROCKETT: Absolutely. So, therefore, I’m like, what are we doing? So, what are the parameters? And I generally did want to know. So, I did not state anything to her. I specifically asked a question and I didn’t even mention her name. And, so, it was for clarification, and that’s what I asked for, and he obviously didn’t hear me.

TAPPER: Okay. Yeah. And I hear that. But she went after your appearance and then, like, you went out, you went back at her a thousand-fold.

CROCKETT: I did. In a very lawyerly way.

Watch the clip above via CNN.