Maria Bartiromo interviewed MT Greene. If you were hoping for some new material — sorry. The Fox News host’s conversation with MAGA Barbie provided a glimpse into an addled mind, dented by conspiracy theories, stupidity, and ego — but nothing original.
Bartiromo started with Hunter Biden’s sublime power play — a move that knocked House Republicans onto their collective back foot. It has been four days since Hunter showed up in front of the House panel debating whether to hold him in contempt of Congress for not showing up. Blind to irony, the House Oversight Committee, under the leadership of the out-of-his-depth James Comer (R-KY), voted to send the measure to the full House.
Since then, the House MAGAs have been spinning their confusion to suggest they were the victors in the joust. Greene has crafted her fantasy. She began by saying she was “absolutely shocked that he [Hunter] decided to show up that day,” She then made things up:
“And he looked like a child pitching a temper tantrum, when he finally caught and looked like he was going to be in trouble.”
No, he did not. Hunter looked like a grown man who had caught the naughty Republicans shoplifting underwear — which Greene admitted when she said he sat there “unfazed while Nancy Mace was chastising him.” She used the sly dig at her MAGA rival to set herself up as the hero by comparison.
The self-congratulatory fabulist claimed that when it was her time to ask questions, Hunter knew she had an unbeatable hand and ran away. In her words:
“But I think he knew what I was about to bring up. You see, I have been going after Hunter for violating the Mann Act and that's trafficking women across state lines. And this is a very serious crime. And we have evidence of that on our oversight committee, through our investigation.
Green has already been ridiculed for her suggestion that Hunter is a mind reader. She can expect further scorn for her claim that the Oversight Committee has ‘evidence.’ As for the Mann Act, as far as I can see, in the last few decades it has been used exclusively against men abusing minors. And at this point in the nation’s moral evolution, adult women — and Hunter likes adult women — are freeing themselves from the paternalistic judgment of patronizing sexists.
Bartiromo goes on to list the criminal behaviors the GOP has accused Hunter and, by innuendo, his father of: to wit “money laundering, bribery, influence peddling.” She then asked Greene what her most “damning evidence” is. Greene lied again by saying her slam-dunk proof,
“are checks literally written to Joe Biden. And we have traced that money, and when you follow the money it proves exactly where it comes from. And we have traced that money. And it comes through LLCs. And it comes directly from China.”
It may be that a lie oft-repeated will be believed by the weak-minded — but it remains a lie. Repaying a car loan from a family member is both legal and proof of filial, fiscal responsibility. This absolution is not to defend Hunter Biden from all charges. That is for his lawyers.
But Greene’s suggestion that some foreign money flowing to Hunter has reached Joe is pure fabrication for which, of course, there is no evidence — even after eight months of futile GOP digging. Greene gets out her own shovel by repeating the spurious claim.
“That is a complete, unbelievable amount of corruption and breaking the law. We have serious evidence and the Democrats don't want to admit it. They pitch some temper tantrums and claimed we don't have evidence.”
If “temper tantrum” is a synonym of “withering derision,” I will award Greene a point (it is not). And (as stated above) we are all still waiting to see this evidence — which we should now call ‘Godot.'
Greene then goes on to say that Jamie Raskin and the Democrats know the Republicans have evidence (another lie) before adding:
“They can only dream of having this kind of evidence against Donald Trump and his family, and they would never be able to produce it because all of their attacks were lies against President Trump and his family."
Pure 24-carat projection. Dear God Margie, Trump himself has admitted to taking at least $8 million from China et al.
Greene was far from done with the Bidens. Egged on by ratings-hungry Bartiromo, she gave the Fox audience another 2½ minutes more of the same. (If you would like to see it, here is a link.) Bartiromo then asked Greene for her opinion of Speaker Johnson’s budget deal with the Democrats.
To give the question some sizzle, Bartiromo reminded Greene that Greene has said she was “willing to go to the mat and vacate the Chair, fire House Speaker Mike Johnson if, in fact, he agreed to another Continuing Resolution. Where are you on that?”
Greene corrected the host by saying her threat to fire Johnson was to dissuade him from accepting the Senate’s bipartisan border deal.
“No, I said that if he made that border deal. If he passes that Senate border deal, or so-called border deal, that's really an amnesty deal, where Democrats are going to bring in millions and millions of illegals, and turn them into Democrat [sic] voters.
That's their plan. It's to replace Americans with millions and millions of illegal aliens. And it upset me so much that this is the deal that Republicans in the Senate are making."
Listening to Republicans is like listening to an old-time LP. There is no ‘shuffle’ — the songs never change. And it takes chutzpah for immigrants to complain immigrants will replace them. (Fun fact: you could multiply the population of Georgia by 8, and the state would still be less densely populated than England — there is room.)
Greene then turned to another of her bugbears. Our support of an ally fighting our implacable enemy — an arrangement that spares American lives. Not that she can grasp that.
“And they want to do this in exchange for 60 billion more dollars for Ukraine. Maria, our country is broke. We are like a corporation on the verge of bankruptcy."
She adds: “anyone elected to serve in the United States Congress, should be supporting, protecting America's national security interests and they would never vote for that deal.”
Republicans have been whining about our national debt for over 40 years. It has never stopped them giving tax cuts to billionaires. When they show us their deficit concerns are sincere by raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy, I will take them seriously.
In addition, Americans should thank God Ukrainians are dying instead of their fellow citizens to keep Russia at bay.
There are almost two additional minutes of Greene. But it is more of the same. So I will stop here. And go smoke something agreeable.