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JUST IN: Dan Goldman Hysterically Melts Down After MTG Brings Out Damning Receipts
A hearing of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee nearly came to blows after Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY) threw a tantrum over evidence introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggesting that “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a well-established member of MS-13.
The donnybrook threatened to overwhelm MTG’s introduction of documents asserting that multiple courts and law enforcement agencies determined Garcia was a member of the violent gang before he was captured and deported back in March. A steady drip of discoveries about Garcia’s past criminal history and allegations of violence against him has kept the case on the front burner of Washington, D.C. discussions for months.
Both Goldman and Greene are members of the committee, and it’s typically unobjectionable for members to introduce evidence into the record; as committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) puts it in a clip of the feud, “anything” can be entered into the record by a member. Still, Goldman interrupted the MAGA lawmaker multiple times as she read the litany of charges against Garcia.
“According to the Attorney General of the United States, she posted that the evidence shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia has repeatedly been identified as a member of MS-13 by a Maryland county police gang unit, which I introduce for the record, a reliable confidential informant, ICE officers, an immigration judge agreed, and an appellate board agreed,” Greene said.
As Chair Green invited unanimous acceptance of her evidence, Goldman sputtered into the microphone, “Sorry, is that a court order? I object!”
After Green explained that MTG may put anything in the record she wants — “she’s not complying to your request, Mr. Goldman” — the Democratic gadfly nevertheless persisted.
“Is that a court order that establishes that he’s a member of MS-13?” Goldman asked again with greater urgency.
Like a patient elementary school teacher, Greene explained that she is simply introducing evidence posted on social media by Attorney General Pam Bondi in the days after the furor about Garcia’s deportation reached a boiling point.
Some of those revelations have shown that Garcia, 26, was pulled over in Tennessee while shuttling what appeared to officers to be seven human trafficking victims in a vehicle associated with a convicted human smuggler who Garcia claimed to work for.
If that wasn’t enough, Bondi produced records from Maryland showing that Garcia’s wife previously sought protections against him after alleging he had been violent against her in front of their children, and that the woman’s ex-husband told social workers he didn’t his children around her because she was “dating a gang member.”
Crosstalk between the lawmakers became so heated that Chairman Green attempted to referee, but even then Goldman wouldn’t respond with decorum.
“She is misstating the record and the facts, that is not accurate, and therefore I object to that being introduced… There is no final court order establishing that he’s a member. Maybe he is! You should put all that evidence before a judge and if he’s a member of MS-13 he should be deported,” Goldman continued, “but [Greene is] misstating what all of that evidence is.”
Green once again clarified that MTG was simply introducing what Bondi had put into the public about Garcia, not making any claims herself. A brief recess was underway while Democrats moved to hold a vote on the evidence.
When conversation resumed, the Republican chair nearly lost his cool after Goldman continued talking over him.
“Do not interrupt me again!” he shouted at the Democrat.
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