Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) shared some harsh words for his fellow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Wednesday, saying she was pushing “Russian propaganda” by calling Ukraine a Nazi state.
“Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, has been recycling direct Russian propaganda. She says that our tax dollars are going to support Ukrainian Nazis, and that is a Putin line, that he’s de-Nazifying Ukraine and that it’s a Nazi state,” Raskin said. “Of course, it is a liberal democracy committed to equal rights for everybody and human rights, and it has the only Jewish president in the world outside of Israel.”
The comments from the Maryland Democrat came during an interview with MSNBC, in which he also pointed to his concerns about the influence of Russian propaganda in the Republican party.
“So, calling it a Nazi state is such an affront and an insult to the Ukrainian people, and it’s just a lie,” he added. “And yet we’re hearing a lot of that coming from various Republican members and different sources, to the point where you’re getting now Republican chairmen, finally, of committees like the Foreign Affairs Committee saying that Russian propaganda has invaded the ranks of the Republican Party.”
Raskin was referencing House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) when referring to those who were concerned about the influence of Russian propaganda among Republicans.
The comments that sparked the response from Raskin came on Wednesday when Greene dedicated her questioning time in a House Oversight Committee hearing to make the claims of Nazism running rampant in Ukraine.
“This looks like something you’d see out of Hitler’s Germany from Ukraine. And this is something that’s extremely important to talk about,” Greene said while holding up a photo of Ukrainian soldiers, who were smiling and holding their right hands up in a salute.
During the hearing, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), who had family in the Holocaust, immediately went at Greene over her comments, saying “there are no concentration camps in Ukraine. They’re not taking babies and shooting them in the air because they’re Jewish. There’s no gas chambers.”
“Stop bringing up Nazis and Hitler. The only people who know about Nazis and Hitler are the 10 million people and their families who lost their loved ones — generations of people who were wiped out,” Moskowitz said. “It is enough of this disgusting behavior, using Nazis as propaganda. You want to talk about Nazis? Get yourself over to the Holocaust Museum. You go see what Nazis did.”
Greene has not yet responded to Raskin’s remarks that she was pushing Russian propaganda.