Utter chaos erupted on Capitol Hill when Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) appeared to call the Republicans fascists, and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) hit back because he, like so many of us following Charlie Kirk's assassination by a suspect influenced by this hateful leftist ideology, has had it.
During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday to discuss President Donald Trump's federalization of local law enforcement, including in Washington, D.C., Tlaib refused to yield after her time was well over and continued to go on and on about how bad Trump's "fascist takeover" was.
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Heated exchange between Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Byron Donalds (R-FL).@RepRashida: We need to stand up against this fascist takeover. That's not a word. It's a fact."
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 18, 2025
Rep. Byron Donalds: "Do I look like a member of the Third Reich to you?" pic.twitter.com/PdX3in75ba
"We need to stand up against this fascist takeover. That's not a bad word. It's a fact," Tlaib said, while she attempted to couch her comments by claiming she was only attacking the process, not people.
No matter how civilized Rep. Donalds or the chair was in asking her to yield to a question or to stop speaking because her time had expired, and allow the next person to speak, she just kept talking.
"No, I don't yield," she responded.
Finally, the congressman had heard enough.
"Chairman, I think it's wrong if she's going to refer to me and some of my colleagues, that we are from the Third Reich," Donalds responded, as she kept yelling over him and not allowing him his time to speak. "This is insane. This is insane. It's insane."
"Do I look like a member of the Third Reich to you?" he added, raising his voice so as to be heard above her yelling. "Is that what I look like to you? Is that what you think?"
He then demanded an answer from her, asking again, "Is that what you think?"
She finally responded with "No."
Donalds came back with, "I think it's radical. I think it's insane, and I'll respect everything you say. But to say something like that about myself and a lot of my colleagues is way out of line. It's way out of line."
"But it's okay, right? It's okay, right?" he added.
The crazy part was that the entire time he was responding, Tlaib kept screaming at him and would not stop, telling him to, ironically, "hold himself accountable."
"Hold myself accountable?" Donalds replied. "Hold your own self accountable. How about that?"
The chaotic moment in the hearing followed a few other notable ones this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, there were fireworks during separate hearings with FBI Director Kash Patel, as my RedState colleague Bob Hoge reported, and Nick Arama reported here.
Given that all these blowups happened just days apart, one has to wonder if we are approaching some kind of tipping point for Democrats. Republicans have had it with going along to get along.
Donalds reemphasized that point with his tweet following the dust-up:
It's been 8 days since a leftist assassin shot my friend @charliekirk11.
— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) September 18, 2025
Just now, Rashida Tlaib just called us "FASCIST" again.
This rhetoric is WRONG.
This rhetoric is UNHINGED.
This rhetoric is OUT-OF-LINE.
This rhetoric has INSPIRED MURDER.
WE WILL NOT STAND TO BE DEFAMED. pic.twitter.com/FDEJmSpoxe
Fox News' Greg Gutfeld tried to warn Democrats, members of the legacy media, and those on the left like Tlaib on Monday that conservatives are done following Kirk's murder with this violent rhetoric they have spewed over the last decade, labeling Trump and his supporters Nazi's and fascists, as RedState's Rusty Weiss reported.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Greg Gutfeld just EVISCERATED Jessica Tarlov for making the "both sides" argument about Charlie Kirk's kiIIing
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 15, 2025
"DON'T PLAY THAT BULLSHlT WITH ME!"
"We don't care about your 'both sides' argument. That shlt is DEAD!"
"On your side, your beliefs do not match… pic.twitter.com/tXAl6RGIQ4
Weiss wrote:
Gutfeld's response is so important because it is emblematic of the appropriate level of frustration and disdain conservatives need to be countering the left with on this assassination. Yes, the shooter was motivated by left-wing propaganda against Kirk, as evidenced by the messages on the bullet casings and the mounting information being obtained by authorities. No, you don't get to gloss over that reality.
And you sure as hell don't get to "both sides" this thing following multiple assassination attempts against President Trump, one of which came within millimeters of being successful, the other a matter of minutes of achieving the goal, and especially when Kirk's murder marks the first political assassination since 1968.
"The fact of the matter is, the 'both sides argument' not only doesn't fly—we don't care! We don't care about your both sides argument. That s*** is dead, "Gutfeld continued to seethe.
And I don't know about you, but I, for one, am done too.
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