Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday shared video of herself berating a reporter who asked about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The reporter was NBC's Scott Wong, who quoted Greene in an article about Jan. 6.
"The American people are fed up with this over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time," Greene said, according to Wong. "They are sick and tired of Jan. 6 — it’s over, OK?"
On Sunday, Greene posted video of the brief interview and suggested Wong's report was misleading.
But the video shared by Greene confirmed that the quote was accurate.
In the video, Greene seems to become upset after Wong asks if Republicans were wrong to boycott the Jan. 6 Committee.
"People are rotting in jail pre-trial because they have been arrested for it," she says at one point. "Why don't you go to the jail and visit those people? Everyone is being prosecuted that should be prosecuted. Why don't you care about things that honestly care about instead of continuing on with this? OK?"
"Go ask about BLM and antifa rioters," Greene concluded. "See of they're rotting in jail!"
Rep. Marjorie Taylor (R-GA) interrupted an event with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Saturday to kick out an opposition researcher.
During a so-called "Kickoff Tour" event in Florida on Saturday, Greene sarcastically said that she was "honored" to have a "tracker" recording the event.
"He's paid to take videos of me, lie about me," Greene told the crowd. "It's a shame. You should get a better job where you don't have to follow me around."
As Greene spoke, a staffer asked the opposition researcher to leave the event.
National Review writer Dan McLaughlin pointed out that the event had been advertised as "free & open to the public."
No local elected officials attended the Saturday's re-election campaign kickoff hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), but he did get Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to attend.
Tom McLaughlin of the Northwest Florida Daily News said Gaetz had harsh words for his newspaper.
"He railed against a Daily News article that labeled he and Greene "controversial" figures in Washington D.C. and described them as congressional 'outcasts.' 'We may be outcasts in Washington D.C., but we'll never be alone when we are with you, the good people of our districts,' he told the crowd, which included no local elected officials. Greene said she would proudly wear the badge of outcast alongside her friend Matt Gaetz," the newspaper reported.
Greene also explained how Republicans would spend their time if they retake control of Congress in the midterm elections, which involves impeaching both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to a report from CNN, Federal Judge Amy Totenberg has indicated a willingness to take a look at whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) can be kept from running for re-election due to her connection to the Jan 6th Capitol assault.
CNN is reporting that Totenberg is expected to "issue a ruling next week, likely on Monday."
"Federal Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District of Georgia said during a lengthy hearing that she has 'significant questions and concerns' about a recent ruling in a similar case, which blocked the same challenge against Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a North Carolina Republican," CNN's Marshall Cohen wrote. "A group of Georgia voters, backed by a coalition of constitutional scholars and liberal activists, lodged the challenge against Greene last month with state election officials. Greene then filed her own lawsuit in federal court, asking Totenberg to shut down the state-level proceedings."
An attorney for Taylor Greene, James Bopp Jr. complained that the challenge is concocted from "50 pages of newspaper articles, hearsay and political hyperbole.”
He also warned that, should the challenge be successful, Democratic activists may attempt to use the ruling to keep Donald Trump off the ballot should he run for president in 2024.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) delivered an unhinged, massively anti-LGBTQ attack on Friday, in an attempt to rev up her base with the latest far-right-wing outrage du jour. Like many Republicans, Greene has dug up old anti-gay tropes, fear-mongering lies about transgender people, and wrapped it all up in "concern" for the nation and its children.
One of the more stunning claims Greene made was that "Women are murdering and mutilating their own babies through the twin horrors of abortion and transgenderism."
"Like you, I was shocked when I heard that Fox News had hired Bruce Jenner to be its newest female political contributor," Greene begins. "We remember Jenner winning an Olympic gold in 1976, and from the front of the Wheaties box, but today, Jenner believes he is a woman. I'd love to know which female contributors were passed over, or perhaps even made redundant to clear space for Fox's newest star transgender commentator."
"For many of us it felt like the last day in women's history," she claimed.
Greene says she feels "disgust as men have taken over women's sports, robbing women and girls of their rightful accomplishments," as she derides swimmer "Lea Thomas's muscular frame towering over his female competitors," and she misgenders her.
Greene goes on to blast apparently CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, for allowing "drag queens and transsexuals" to "parade around the halls."
She uses terms like "transsexuals," and warns of "gay men with crossdressing fetishes" hosting "drag queen story hour for impressionable young children," while warning that "cross dressing and gender disruption is one of the hallmarks of a civilization and rapid decline."
"Our armed forces seem to care more about naming ships after gay pedophiles like Harvey Milk than ensuring our readiness for conflict with China and Russia," she cried. There is no evidence Milk was a pedophile, and the Navy named a ship after him in 2016 – six years ago.
"Everywhere you look the signs of decadence and decay are consuming our once-great institutions," she claimed. "Mom and Dad have been replaced by Chasten and Pete Buttigieg and their designer babies. Our society is sick and the symptoms are easy to see," she lamented, never once looking inward.
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On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) released a five-minute video dripping with hatred for transgender people.
She opened by complaining about the decision by Fox News to hire former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner as a commentator, repeatedly deadnaming her and referring to her as a man. And she ranted against "drag queens and transsexuals parading" at conservative gatherings.
"Mothers are mutilating and murdering their babies through transgenderism and abortion. Meanwhile, society sits back and allows men to destroy women’s sports," said Greene. "How much more can America take before our civilization begins to collapse?"
Greene's hatred of LGBTQ people is not new; last year, she hung a sign denying the existence of nonbinary people outside her office, and threw a tantrum after it was vandalized.
Greene has infamously promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that America is controlled by a group of pedophiles who consume children's flesh to live forever, and even promoted content suggesting that fires in the Western United States were ignited with Jewish space lasers.
She was stripped of her House committee assignments following the emergence of social media activity endorsing the killing of prominent Democratic politicians, although most Republicans voted against doing so and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has said he will add her back onto committees if the GOP wins a majority this year.
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday had the ultimate response to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who had said she wants the U.S. Capitol Police to investigate Kimmel because of a joke he told about her.
After Greene made the outlandish assertion that anyone who supports now-confirmed Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is “pro-pedophile,” Kimmel asked on his show, "Where's Will Smith when you really need him," a laugh-line reference to the actor's Oscar night slap to the face of Chris Rock.
According to Kimmel said, “What a day — I have to tell you. What a night and what a day. I have the weirdest life. I really do. Once again, I find myself in the middle of a brouhaha, as I appear to have run afoul of probably the worst woman in American politics. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congressperson from the 14th District of Georgia, is unhappy. She’s specifically unhappy with me.”
Kimmel repeated the joke about Greene and then proceeded to label her a snowflake and sociopath - and conflated the two terms into the moniker "snowciopath" for the Georgian's running to the Capitol Police. "Not only did she call the police — she called the same police she voted against giving a congressional gold medal to for defending our Capitol against the insurrection she helped incite on Jan. 6," Kimmel said.
You can watch his entire take-down of Greene here.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was once again an object of derision on national television for his antics during his unsuccessful effort to stop the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Comedian Samantha Bee went after Cruz and Republicans on the TBS show "Full Frontal."
"There's really no good reason not to confirm Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court, but that's just fine with republicans because they have no problem making up a bunch of absolutely f*cking goat sh*t," she said, airing a clips of Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
"Republicans are horrifically and disrespectfully attempting to twist Jackson's record," she explained. "It is absurd and infuriating to have to say this, but she — like every other person who has faced this recent allegation of choice from conservatives — is- in no way supportive of pedophiles. Republicans are making baseless accusations because they have nothing else on which to fault her and they know they're acting in bad faith. Otherwise, they wouldn't have acted to lose their damn minds every time Jackson tried to respond."
She played a clip of Cruz talking over Jackson and said the Texas Republican was "absolutely incapable of getting a woman to finish."
"Fake worrying about pretend pedophiles is an easy way for Republicans to score points with their base, especially with the recent rise of debunked, child abuse conspiracy theories," she said with a clip on QAnon.
"Perhaps the most batsh*t part of all of this is Q-believers think only Donald Trump can put a stop it. Which, if true, means this man is sure taking his f*cking time getting around to it. Look, if Donald Trump was going to save us all from a cabal of satanic pedophiles, he could have knocked it out literally at any time in the four years of his presidency. But, as much as QAnon has been debunked, it's still going strong, which means Republicans are more than comfortable Q-whistling to the stupidest people on the planet," she said.
"People like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham may cynically use this as a ploy, but there are scum-holes like Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who are true believers," Bee explained. "But the most hypocritical part of it is there are actually people in their own party who are endangering kids."
She then played clips of Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Tennessee Republicans.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) this week explained her opposition to naming the so-called "Black National Anthem" as the official hymn of the United States by insisting that she's "not a racist."
During an appearance on Rep. Matt Gaetz's Firebrand podcast, the two lawmakers talked about legislation that would make “Lift Every Voice and Sing” the national hymn. The bill passed the House Judiciary Committee earlier this week despite opposition from Greene and Gaetz.
“My belief is that we are one country,” Gaetz opined. “We pledge our allegiance to one flag. We sing one anthem. I pray to one God, other people might not, but that’s my thing.”
“The notion that we would, like, erode the meaning and significance of our national anthem with the Black national anthem as the national anthem is crazy,” he added.
Greene suggested that the hymn is racist because it has been referred to as the Black National Anthem.
“We only have one national anthem and I’m not a racist!" she exclaimed. "So I don’t know why I need — why we need to elevate one race over the other."
"We’re all one nation under God," Greene continued. "And that’s the only anthem. We have one flag. And that’s what’s being anti-racist, when we don’t divide ourselves into groups, into races, into identities, ideologies, genders, 50 genders, or whatever there may be. That’s how we avoid those things, by being one nation with one flag and one anthem.”
Gaetz argued that "Amazing Grace" would be a more appropriate national hymn because it's a "song people know."
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene clearly isn't a student of history. If she was the Georgia Republican wouldn't have labeled Democrats as the "party of pedophiles" when she denounced their support of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination.
In a new supercut video set to The Tings Tings hit “That’s Not My Name”, The Daily Show's Trevor Noah takes her to school, trotting out the list of Republicans who have been exposed for proven or alleged sexual liaisons with underage people: former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, former Rep. Mark Foley of Massachusetts, Alabama's Roy Moore and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Greene's accusation that those who support Jackson's nomination are "pro pedophile" is borne from a line of attack by Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley during Jackson's confirmation hearing in which he baselessly accused the judge of being too lenient when sentencing child sex offenders.
Hawley's claims were widely labeled as misleading by fact checkers, with Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and contributing editor at the conservative magazine National Review, describing Hawley's line of questioning as "meritless to the point of demagoguery."
You can watch The Daily Show's video takedown here:
On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatened late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel with police action following a monologue in which he made fun of her.
"Marjorie Taylor Greene, this Klan mom, is especially upset with the three Republican senators who said they'll vote yes on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is nominated for the Supreme Court," said Kimmel. "She tweeted, 'Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for #KBJ. Wow, where is Will Smith when you really need him, huh?" — a reference to the actor slapping comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony.
Greene, evidently, took this comedy bit to be a literal threat of violence.
Kimmel, however, found her threat hilarious — and was quick to respond.
Watch below:
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UPDATE: Three hours after this story was published, Congressman Paul Gosar’s campaign consultant told the Arizona Mirror that the congressman would not be attending the white nationalist group’s event on April 20. Instead, he said Gosar had a “farm tour” scheduled for that day. Rory McShane said that American Populist Union never contacted Gosar or his campaign. As noted below, Gosar’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment before the story was published.
McShane did not immediately respond to questions about why Gosar promoted his planned appearance at the American Populist Union event on his official Instagram account.
This story has been updated to reflect the latest developments, and its headline has been changed.
The American Populist Social will be held in Tempe on April 20, a date revered by white supremacists and Neo-Nazis.
But Gosar’s campaign says he isn’t attending and it doesn’t know how he was listed as a guest of honor, even though Gosar promoted his scheduled appearance on social media.
Earlier this month, Gosar said his March video message to attendees of AFPAC was the fault of a staffer who sent his video message to the wrong group. He distanced himself from Fuentes, telling Politico that the young Holocaust-denying racist “has a problem with his mouth.”
Fuentes shared the story on the encrypted messaging app Telegram with the message “April Fool’s!” and later said in a livestream that he and Gosar will continue to “collaborate behind the scenes.”
American Populist Union has connections to Fuentes ideologically and through its members. The group hobnobbed with Arizona politicians in December when it held an event across the street from Turning Point USA that attracted a slew of fringe activists and groypers.
The other featured guest at the event, John Doyle, has allied with and promoted groypers, and he organized a “Stop the Steal” rally in Michigan with Fuentes. Doyle, a YouTube personality who runs a show called “Heck off Commie,” regularly advocates far-right ideology. He has said that Martin Luther King was “not a hero” and has claimed that liberalism is linked to satanism.
Doyle has also posted highly misogynistic content, such as saying that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and he once called for “low IQ offenders” to be executed in response to a story about a Black man committing a violent crime. Doyle, along with other members of APU, were also in attendance at the first 76Fest which was dubbed “Hitler Youth, without the Hitler” by one of its organizers.
Arizona state Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, is also listed as a featured guest, but he told the Arizona Mirror he is not attending.
“When they first contacted me, I thought it was a County Young Republican event,” Petersen said. “After I realized it was an organization I was unfamiliar with, I respectfully declined to speak.”
APU did not respond to a request for comment asking it chose April 20 — a Wednesday — for its event. The organization still lists Petersen as a “special guest” at the event.
Gosar’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
After this story was published, Gosar’s campaign consultant told the Arizona Mirror that the congressman would not be attending the white nationalist group’s event on April 20. Instead, he said Gosar had a “farm tour” scheduled for that day. Rory McShane said that American Populist Union never contacted Gosar, his staff or his campaign.
On April 2, Gosar promoted the American Populist Union event, and his appearance, in an Instagram story. McShane didn’t immediately respond to requests about what Gosar did that if he had no idea he was scheduled to attend it.
Arizona Mirror is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Arizona Mirror maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Jim Small for questions: info@azmirror.com. Follow Arizona Mirror on Facebook and Twitter.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) disgraced herself so thoroughly during her first month in Congress, but the conspiracy theorist officially received the political backing of Donald Trump on Wednesday.
"Marjorie Taylor Greene is a warrior in Congress. She doesn’t back down, she doesn’t give up, and she has ALWAYS been with Trump.' Marjorie has worked very hard to secure the Border, stop the Radical Left, and ensure the truth is known about the RIGGED and STOLEN 2020 Presidential Election," Trump said, even though it is delusional to repeat the debunked claim the election was stolen.
"She loves our Country and MAGA, its greatest ever political movement. Marjorie is running for re-election to Congress, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement!" Trump said.
Trump's endorsement came hours after Greene heckled Rep. Jaime Raskin (R-MD) and Republicans received blame for her "axis" with Trump and Vladimir Putin.
