What was that about Mark Meadows again? The guy who pointed to a silent Black Lady who works for Trump as his token that Trump is not a racist, and then pitched a huge wrathful noisy fit that anyone would say that was a racist thing to do?

Here’s another video where he says we’re going to send Obama “back home to Kenya.”

His bit starts at 2:48 but it’s worth watching the other guy’s venom too, if only for the bit where he mentions Chicago.

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Oh my my my will you look at that now. I just got through writing a post about Mark Meadows’s tantrum about the very idea that pointing out This One Black Woman He Knows could be a racist move at all in any way – and what do I find on Twitter.

Here's Mark Meadows, who just sidetracked the entire House Oversight Committee to assure him he's not racist, saying that "2012 is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is" pic.twitter.com/90L1xnWf6v

— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) February 27, 2019

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I watched much of the hearing but not all of it. I missed the part where Mark Meadows, R-North Carolina, pitched a fit about Cohen’s having said Trump is racist. The fit Meadows pitched was a remarkably dumb fit (and of course Trump is a racist).

Something curious happened about 90 minutes into the Michael Cohen testimony which transfixed much of Washington on Wednesday: A woman rose behind Rep. Mark Meadows as the North Carolina Republican grilled President Trump’s former fixer on his characterization of the president as a racist.

The woman — sunglasses affixed to her head, white cape draped over her shoulders — was Lynne Patton, longtime Trump family aide and an official at the U.S.