Dan Crenshaw heckled outdoors Capitol by right-wing comic who catcalled AOC

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was heckled outdoors the Capitol by the identical far-right comic who catcalled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) earlier this summer time.

In a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, Alex Stein ran as much as the Texas Republican, referring to him as "eye patch McCain," and repeatedly requested him why he retweeted a tweet by Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy saying he wished Stein to fail, together with some expletives, in addition to criticizing his political stances. Crenshaw appeared to acknowledge Stein, referring to him by his first identify although largely ignoring him. The interplay lasted roughly one minute, ending when Crenshaw walked previous a safety barricade. Stein ended the interplay by asking him about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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"You misplaced your eye for weapons of mass destruction that did not exist, and you do not even name it out. Weapons of mass destruction that did not exist, bud. You already know that. Let me hear you say one thing about that," Stein says within the video.

Crenshaw misplaced an eye fixed serving as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan — not in Iraq, as prompt by Stein — after being hit by shrapnel from an improvised explosive gadget.

"Think about being a grown man and appearing this fashion. Think about your complete life is about begging twitter trolls for clicks. This piece of rubbish insults each veteran that served in Iraq, and worse, insults the reminiscences of these we misplaced. (Misplaced my eye in Afghanistan, btw, not Iraq. Moron)," the congressman tweeted Tuesday night.

Stein, who gained nationwide fame for a heated interplay with Ocasio-Cortez outdoors the Capitol in July, known as Crenshaw a "traitor" and "globalist." Crenshaw refers to a earlier interplay wherein he claims Stein "assaulted a 65-year-old girl," a cost Stein denies, earlier than saying, "Are you an grownup?"

Stein has confronted Crenshaw publicly earlier than, filming an identical video of himself confronting the Texas consultant at a Texas GOP conference in June. Within the video, he movies himself calling Crenshaw a "globalist RINO" (a "Republican in identify solely") and, once more, "eye patch McCain."

Stein is a conservative comic who grew to become recognized for crashing city corridor conferences, steadily in costumes, adopting an over-the-top persona as a transgender or left-wing activist. He would additionally seem at city corridor conferences criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the U.S. authorities's COVID-19 response, usually in a satirical method.

He has been closely criticized by a number of commentators over his ways, particularly his confrontation of Ocasio-Cortez, wherein he referred to her as "my favourite large booty Latina," which many noticed as sexual harassment, together with the congresswoman herself.

"I posted a couple of deeply disgusting incident that occurred at the moment on the Capitol steps, however took it down bc it’s clearly somebody in search of extremist fame. It’s only a bummer to work in an establishment that brazenly allowed this, however speaking about it solely invitations extra. Simply actually unhappy," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted concerning the incident.

Stein and Crenshaw's workplace didn't reply when reached for remark.