Raskin pointed to alleged examples of censorship under Trump, concluding, “There’s a free speech crisis in America today. But there’s no free speech crisis in Britain.”
In a brief response, Jordan was ready with a sharp rejoinder: “The gentleman alleges there’s no free speech in America under Donald Trump while his staff member holds up countless articles criticizing the Trump administration.”
Farage opened his testimony with a strong dose of irony. “I’m delighted to reacquaint with the charming Mr. Raskin.”
“Delightful testimony you gave me earlier on with your speech,” he continued. “But hey, that’s fine, you can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is.”
Farage pointed to the U.K.’s recent arrest of an Irish comedian at Heathrow Airport for posting supposedly transphobic tweets. “This could happen to any American man or woman that goes to Heathrow that has said things online that the British government and the British police don’t like,” he said.
“At what point did we become North Korea? Well, I think the Irish comedy writer found that out two days ago at Heathrow Airport,” he concluded.
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