“Do you think that it’s the goal of the Smithsonian Institution to promote white supremacy culture?”

Ann Althouse summary:

Congressman Brandon Gill asks Smithsonian Museum director Anthea Hartig at the House Oversight Committee hearing today.

It’s quite an exchange. Gill has a very well-planned set of question designed to destroy Hartig, and Hartig’s defense is almost entirely restricted to long silences and diligent note-taking, as if she’s endeavoring to learn from Gill: