CNN host Jake Tapper blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she offered a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for leading a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Before signing off his weekly State of the Union program on Sunday, Tapper noted that Greene's censure resolution seemed to be more about defending the Jan. 6 defendants than opposing Tlaib.
"I mean, Greene spoke at the white supremacist conference run by Holocaust denier, racist anti-Semite Nick Fuentes, who participated in that hateful 2017 Charlottesville rally," Tapper said. "This is the same Marjorie Taylor Greene who has pushed the great replacement theory in videos, the deranged notion that rich Jews are trying to replace white Americans and Westerners with Blacks and brown Muslims, not to mention, of course, her Jewish space laser conspiracy that a consortium including, yes, wealthy Jews were using lasers on satellites to start forest fires."
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The CNN host said Greene had also gotten attention in Israel for "belittling the Holocaust by tweeting, quote, Joe Biden is Hitler, with the hashtag Nazi Joe has got to go."
Tapper said Greene's censure resolution read like she "learned about the Arab-Israeli conflict maybe ten minutes before."
He pointed out that Greene had labeled the recent protests as an "insurrection."
"This is not an insurrection," he insisted. "Antisemitism is not a cudgel to be used against people for political points. Nor is Islamophobia or racism or anti-gay behavior or misogyny or any other kind of bigotry."
"Just over three weeks ago, 1,400 people, mostly Jews, mostly civilians, were slaughtered here in some of the cruelest and most unimaginable ways in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust," Tapper added. "This shit is not a game."
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