Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan, one of the Democrats witnesses at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing, is getting slammed her unnecessary and “classless” reference to President Trump’s youngest son, 13-year-old Barron. “The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” Karlan said. To make things worse, her rehearsed line was met with applause and laughter.
Democrats chose liberal professor Pam Karlan as their star impeachment witness.
She just went out of her way to mock and attack Barron Trump, the President's 13-year-old child.
Democrats have disgraced themselves by giving a platform to this unhinged, petty kook. pic.twitter.com/LuteVNdbS7
— Trump War Room – Text WOKE to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) December 4, 2019
“A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics,” tweeted first lady Melania Trump. “Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.”
A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) December 4, 2019
Donald Trump Jr. weighed in as well. “How vile of a person do you have to be to attack a 13 year old child on national TV for laughs?” he tweeted.
How vile of a person do you have to be to attack a 13 year old child on national TV for laughs?
Apparently, vile enough to be the supposed star witness for Democrats.
Grotesque. https://t.co/duljFjieWI
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 4, 2019
The Trump campaign noted, “So Hunter Biden is off limits but 13 year old Barron Trump is not? This gets more unreal by the minute.”
So Hunter Biden is off limits, but 13 year old Barron Trump is not?
This gets more unreal by the minute!
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) December 4, 2019
The White House issued a more stern statement from press Secretary Stephanie Grishman. “Classless move by a Democratic ‘witness’. Prof Karlan uses a teenage boy who has nothing to do with this joke of a hearing (and deserves privacy) as a punchline,” she tweeted. “And what’s worse, it’s met by laughter in the hearing room. What is being done to this country is no laughing matter.”
Classless move by a Democratic “witness”. Prof Karlan uses a teenage boy who has nothing to do with this joke of a hearing (and deserves privacy) as a punchline. And what’s worse, it’s met by laughter in the hearing room. What is being done to this country is no laughing matter.
— Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) December 4, 2019
Perhaps one of the most epic responses came at the hearing itself from Rep. Matt Gaetz. “When you invoke the president son’s name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean. It makes you look like you’re attacking someone’s family, the minor child of the president of the United States.”
.@RepMattGaetz to Prof. Karlan:
"You don't get to interrupt me on this time! … When you invoke the president son's name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean." pic.twitter.com/DIgpG5rgSh
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) December 4, 2019
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Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama’s Legacy and the bestselling book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis
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