Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) confronted Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday for promoting a smear against immigrants and reposting a bizarre AI-generated image of former President Donald Trump.
This week, prominent right-wing social media accounts – including those of Elon Musk and GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance – shared baseless accusations about Haitian migrants in Ohio stealing people’s pets and eating them. On Monday, the Jordan-run House Judiciary X account posted an image of Trump hugging a kitten and a goose, which the lawmaker misidentified as a duck. The tweet read, “Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!”
During Tuesday’s committee meeting, Swalwell placed a blown-up printout of the image on an easel:
What in the hell is this?! The chairman tweets, “Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio” because he goes down some crazy rabbit hole, completely debunked that aliens are eating pets. My God, are you ok, Mr. Chairman? Because last year, …