Rep. Crockett defends selling shirts making fun of MTG's 'butch body,' argues it can 'help save our democracy'

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, described on "The View" how she made merchandise based on her insult of a Republican colleague, and is using the money to help the Democratic Party.

"This is about making sure we can raise the moneys," Crockett said. "It’s so I can help save our democracy. My money goes to frontliners. People that are in fights to make sure that we can take the House. We’ve seen that the House has been run like a circus. We need Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker of the House. If they lose the House, I’m just going to go ahead and blame it on Marjorie."

During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Crockett's "fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading."

Democratic members on the committee tried and failed to strike the comment from the record, prompting Crockett to ask Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., "if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?"

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Crockett's comment went viral, generating millions of views and even a rap song.

Her campaign filed a trademark application for the phrase "bleach blonde bad built butch body," to be used for hats, hoodies, socks, and t-shirts, among other items, according to a document viewed by Fox News Digital.

"You have fundraised off of merchandise around this, and you have gotten pushback from people saying, you know, are we just lowering the institution if we’re both kind of playing into this? How do you respond to that?" asked "The View" co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin, who worked in the Trump White House,

"Kind of like the