Democrat Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin hit back at Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert with quotes from former President Donald Trump when she tried to change the record on the former president’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“You’re right. President Trump was in office when the Covid virus was released from a lab in China,” Ms Boebert said on Tuesday during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee as she blasted mask and vaccine mandates.

“And he tried to make that very clear that this came from China, and reporters regularly dismissed that,” she said, as HuffPost reported.

Mr Raskin went on to say that Ms Boebert had missed that Mr Trump had often heaped praise on China’s President Xi Jinping and his administration’s control of the situation during the initial stages of the outbreak in late 2019 and early 2020.

“I appreciate the gentlelady’s passion. There’s two facts that she should perhaps be alerted to,” he said.

“One is that Donald Trump, on more than 20 different occasions, defended the performance of the Chinese government and specifically President Xi in terms of his treatment of Covid-19 and said he was doing a ‘wonderful job’ and a ‘great job’ and they were working closely and they were constantly in touch,” he added.

“So, if there’s a problem with the Chinese government unleashing a virus ― which has not been proven anywhere, but it certainly could be true ― you would have to pin that on your favourite president, Donald Trump, not on Joe Biden,” Mr Raskin added.

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