Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) stormed out of a committee assembly on Tuesday as a Democratic lawmaker gave her a reminder about her personal latest previous throughout a listening to on crime in Washington, D.C.
Greene, a conspiracy theorist who spoke at a white nationalist event in 2022, went on a prolonged rant on all the things from crime within the nation’s capital to gun rights to Donald Trump to Black Lives Matter and past.
“That was loads,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) stated when she was carried out, then identified what he discovered “ironic” about Greene speaking about crime in Washington, D.C.
“She actually supported an rebel and assault on the Capitol,” Garcia stated.
He stated Greene “coddled” the insurrectionists when she visited them last year in jail, the place she provided them handshakes and pats on the again and stated they had been “political prisoners.”
“They really tried to overthrow our authorities,” Garcia reminded her.
That brought about Greene ― who last month called Hunter Biden a “coward” for leaving a listening to when she was talking about him ― to stroll out of the listening to. She appeared to shout one thing as she left, nevertheless it’s not clear what she tried to say.
“She’s insane,” Garcia later wrote on X:
Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to complain about DC crime charges however walked out of the room after I reminded her I noticed her hugging and coddling the Jan sixth insurrectionists in jail. She even yelled that they are political prisoners in the course of my remarks. She’s insane. pic.twitter.com/BUBw6Shu7t
— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) February 6, 2024
Garcia final yr additionally lashed out at Greene over her help for these arrested in reference to the Jan. 6 assault.
“The very first thing she does is … greets them and hugs them and prays with them and apologizes and is treating them like heroes, and I’m sitting there going, that is disgusting,” Garcia advised MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas in autumn. “These folks attacked our authorities, they tried to overthrow our authorities.”