Hot take: Woman seated behind Brett Kavanaugh at hearing flashes white power sign on TV; Updated

Maybe it’s just because we’re not super-woke, but we don’t catch the “white power” hand signal (which resembles the “OK” sign) as often as some people who seem to see it everywhere.

We’re not claiming it doesn’t exist; this gesture from members of Patriot Prayer seems pretty blatant:

Proud Boys / Patriot Prayer kicked out of parking lot in Vancouver WA by property owners.

Russell Schultz of Patriot Prayer says they’ll march outside Portland waterfront park today because they don’t want to be subjected to police search. pic.twitter.com/BmvlKAJFsi

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 4, 2018

But at least one person zoomed in on his TV to catch a woman seated behind Brett Kavanaugh at his Senate hearing flashing the white power sign.

Pass this take around, but be careful. It's super hot. https://t.co/ob14iyTAez

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) September 4, 2018

Will do.

https://twitter.com/rubin_kd/status/1037033721235263488

Settle down, white nationalists … Kavanaugh’s got your back. At least that’s what we think she’s transmitting to cable news viewers across the country.

Waiting too see if she says it’s not what it looks like. pic.twitter.com/M4wvnP78BK

— jestershead (@jestershead) September 4, 2018

Me too. #KavanaughConfirmationHearings

— Keith R. Dumas ?????????????? (@rubin_kd) September 4, 2018

She’s either out of a job, or more likely going to get a pay rise.

— jestershead (@jestershead) September 4, 2018

Oh, she's well-educated, has a job in the Trump admin, and will be a law clerk for Kavanaugh. She's also grossly rich.

— ? BumbleBee ? (@DebAdadj71) September 4, 2018

Zina Bash worked on the White House immigration policy: “Special Assistant to the President for regulatory reform, legal and immigration policy.”

In other words, she worked closely with White Supremacist Stephen Miller.
That WP sign is not an accident.

— Mike Marler (@MikeDMarler) September 4, 2018

She’s pictured with Kavanaugh in an Aug 21st new photo in DC. What or who is she to Kavanaugh?

— CindyWheeler (@cincity631) September 4, 2018

It appears she's going to be a law clerk for him.

— ? BumbleBee ? (@DebAdadj71) September 4, 2018

She should be fired immediately. Mainstreaming this hatred in any way, especially on live TV during hearings, is beyond disgusting. Not the America I want for my daughter.

— Kevin Anderson (@kevliz97) September 4, 2018

#ZinaBash will never be able to work after she leaves the White House. It's horrifying that an official in the immigration department is flashing the WP sign at a SCOTUS hearing.

— Deaf Slayer (@BirchandMaple) September 4, 2018

This is audacious! Shows that the GOP Do Not Care. This signing is #NotOk #NoToKavanaugh pic.twitter.com/LPWaVRYfB3

— K.G.C. (@cameronkgvi) September 4, 2018

That is an intentional signal … no one sits like that normally.

— Freedom Forever ?? (@WayneWi20770958) September 4, 2018

Definitely intentional!!! It actually takes a little bit effort to hold your fingers like this, in a circle. If you try to do it without using any finger muscles, your hands naturally relax and undo this position on their own.

— Liberal In The House ???? (@TurtlesgaloreMR) September 4, 2018

I've been trying to do it for the last few minutes. There's skill in getting it so your fingers are in the right place on your arm, it's facing the correct way for the camera, it's not happenstance.

— Seeking Justice (@combienDUtemps) September 4, 2018

Me too! I literally tried it over and over again. It is completely unnatural.

— Liberal In The House ???? (@TurtlesgaloreMR) September 4, 2018

I tried it too. There is ZERO chance that was anything but intentional

— Rebel Royalty (@rebelroyalty20) September 4, 2018

Editor’s note: We didn’t try it.

If these people were POC i feel folks would be more concerned about gang members being in govt. White nationalists throwing white power gang signs behind a supreme court nominee they support and folks are arguing etiquette

— Brian Green (@greenbrian75) September 4, 2018

https://twitter.com/megh8sthisshit/status/1037043941026267137

She chose that seat im sure knowing she would be on camera as both an attractive woman and a court insider and white house person. That was all deliberate

— Brian Green (@greenbrian75) September 4, 2018

Not a doubt but that it was planned. I'm sure they scoped out the camera placements, too. Disgusting….. beyond words.

— KatieDid (@OutlierShME) September 4, 2018

She seems quite proud of herself. Honestly, this is what we've become since 45 was installed.

— Connie Ohcowgirl (@OHCowgirl) September 4, 2018

Yes. She’s smirking.. like she’s the smartest one in the room

— robin sutton (@kekikaad97) September 4, 2018

https://twitter.com/3YearsOfMyLife/status/1037064917394714624

Like she’s getting away with something.

— Cindy – Naturalized Texan. (@ckn4502) September 4, 2018

Notice that the cameraman realized it because he moved the camera over so you can’t see her hands!! It’s so obvious!!

— SueMe (@Sueme39164137) September 4, 2018

Cameraman is compromised. Or afraid to lose his job.

— Patricia M. (@PatPlmcgrath) September 4, 2018

We still don’t get it. Did they scope out where C-SPAN’s camera would be so a cable news audience would see it, or was she signaling to all of the white nationalist Republicans in the Senate to stick to their guns?

Even Resistance doctor Mary Laury, M.D. … um, Eugene Gu … weighed in.

Kavanaugh’s former law clerk Zina Bash is flashing a white power sign behind him during his Senate confirmation hearing. They literally want to bring white supremacy to the Supreme Court. What a national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law. https://t.co/uQGOpNa6xg

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) September 4, 2018

https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1037071130903945220

I'm always entertained by the conspiracy theories from the deranged left. You all never let me down…not even once.

— Vintageport (@vintageport014) September 4, 2018

Zina Bash is half Mexican and half Jewish. But yep, you nailed it! https://t.co/BDS6GO1kJ0

— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) September 4, 2018

Get a number?

— JWF (@JammieWF) September 4, 2018

We still don’t see it, but Heavy.com already has an article published on Bash.

Meet the woman sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh: Zina Bash https://t.co/1BFGTazAwM

— Heavy.com (@HeavySan) September 4, 2018

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As journalists go, Yashar Ali is among the straight shooters, and he’s not buying it either:

She’s half Mexican and half Jewish…this is just crazy…you’re opening her up to death threats. https://t.co/1HyxxjPM9J

— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 4, 2018

And for what it’s worth, Jake Tapper just retweeted Ali’s tweet.

Even Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star isn’t buying it:

Parts of Resistance Twitter have decided an official of Jewish and Mexican descent is transmitting white supremacist code because of how her fingers were positioned at a committee hearing… https://t.co/8ZD0uZKJud

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2018

White power hand signals and handshake "snubs".

That's what has come out of Day 1 of the Kavanaugh hearings.

Tomorrow we get questions from Senators so it's only going to get worse.

— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) September 4, 2018

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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 4, 2018