Marjorie Taylor Greene

At least five Republican members of Congress have ties to extremist groups who laid siege to the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

Nearly 150 GOP House members backed former president Donald Trump's false claim that fraud had cost him re-election, but some lawmakers have even closer ties to the insurgents who stormed into the halls of Congress looking to execute Democrats and Vice President Mike Pence to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's win, reported the New York Times.

On Tuesday CNN's K-File reported U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) "indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress."

"In one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said 'a bullet to the head would be quicker' to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi," wrote CNN's Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski.

The parents of two victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre issued a statement Thursday condemning the House Republican leadership's appointment of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—who endorsed the appalling lie that the 2012 mass shooting was "staged"—to the Education and Labor Committee, calling the move an attack on those who have lost family members to school shootings.

"Having a Sandy Hook and Parkland denier on the House Education and Labor Committee is an attack on any and every family whose loved ones were murdered in mass shootings that have now become fodder for hoaxers," said Mark Barden, father of Daniel Barden, and Nicole Hockley, mother of Dylan Hockley.

The newly elected Qanon congresswoman isn't an aberration, according to MSNBC's John Heilemann -- she represents the direction the Republican Party is headed after Donald Trump.

"Morning Joe" spent Friday morning on what the party will do with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), whose past statements and social media posts show belief in bizarre conspiracy theories, violent threats against elected Democrats and stalking a teenage survivor of the Parkland school massacre.

Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) on Friday ripped his party's leadership for not doing enough to stop QAnon-loving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from getting elected.

During an interview about Greene's support of multiple bizarre conspiracy theories -- including one claiming that California forest fires were started by a giant space laser -- Riggleman said it was time for people to stop describing her as a "firebrand" when she's something much more sinister.

Republican gerrymandering has created red-district seats so safe that "crackpots and goofballs" are getting elected to Congress, according to an MSNBC guest, and now "the party is on fire."

Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei told "Morning Joe" that "crazy" Republicans like newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeal to a growing chunk of the conservative base, and that forces more GOP leadership to tolerate them -- or else.

The post-Trump era of America has begun but the threat of Trumpism remains a serious problem across the United States. A new editorial published by Axios highlights how the main political grievances within the Republican Party could ultimately shape how their party moves forward.

With growing concerns about "big government, big media, and big business," Republicans fear their party is next on the growing list of canceled cultures being censored. In response to that, they will likely become more radicalized. According to Fox News' Tucker Carlson, loyal Trump supporters believe the "combined forces of global power have turned on them and are cracking down hard — hilariously, in the name of democracy."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave chilling remarks on Thursday during her briefing with the press.

"The enemy is within the House of Representatives," she said.

On Thursday, Axios reported that House Republicans initially considered distancing themselves from Marjorie Taylor Greene while she was running for Congress and even supporting her primary opponent — but that officials in former President Donald Trump's administration gave her their blessing, forcing the GOP to back her as well.

"In a series of conversations described to Axios by sources with direct knowledge of their contents, former Rep. Mark Walker was especially vocal about the 'crazy' Greene. Reps. Liz Cheney and Steve Scalise also spoke up. But McCarthy and others ultimately did little to stop her," Axios reported.

On Thursday, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) went after Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg, after he called her one of the "real threats" facing Congress.

"David, please. We all saw how tough you were when questioned face to face," wrote Boebert, a presumed reference to a video of him being harassed by fellow GOP lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). "Give your keyboard a rest, child."

Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the focus of a hard-hitting new editorial by USA Today that was published online on Thursday evening.

The editorial board noted some of Greene's controversial stances.

On CNN Thursday, election analyst John King discussed the significance of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) paying a visit to former President Donald Trump in Florida.

"The former president ... met with the minority leader Kevin McCarthy today down in Palm Beach," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "[Trump] put out a statement afterwards ... saying his endorsement means more than, perhaps, any endorsement at any time. That's the former president of the United States talking about his own endorsement. What do you make of that?"

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace worked in the White House on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the years that followed. She noted how things changed in less than 20 years as the Republican Party moved from the party of "law and order" or "national security" the party of domestic terrorism.

"Donald Trump's big lie about election fraud reached a pinnacle when he attacked his own vice president," Wallace said after showing the videos. "And his words inspired his own supporters to chant, 'hang Mike Pence' as they breached the Capitol. A violent and hateful display of a Republican Party radicalized by Trump. And you might think that putting the vice president in mortal danger would have been a line too far for the rest of the GOP. Less than a month after the Capitol insurrection, it seems Trump's party is all too keen to welcome him back with open arms."