Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday stated “nobody can persuade” her that the rioters behind the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol weren't anti-fascist protesters and that she “can't anticipate an actual investigation” to happen, in an obvious snub to the Home committee investigation’s year-long probe.
Greene was talking with fellow 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, also referred to as the My Pillow Man, after attending the Conservative Political Motion Convention in Texas when she made her unsupported claims and shared her shock on the day’s violence.
“I used to be very upset. I by no means anticipated something like that. And when that occurred I assumed, that is antifa, and nobody can persuade me it was so-called Trump supporters, and we all know there’s rather a lot unsuitable there, and I can't anticipate an actual investigation,” she stated, whereas pointing a finger at anti-fascist protesters.
The Home’s ongoing investigation into the assault has featured sworn testimony from supporters of former President Donald Trump, detailing how Trump’s rhetoric and his election loss fueled their determination to invade the Capitol. One former White Home aide testified that Trump knew his supporters have been armed and threatening violence when he urged them to march to the Capitol.
Regardless of this and different mounting proof exhibiting the opposite, Greene went on to name the federal authorities’s response to the riot ― which has led to greater than 800 arrests and greater than 200 prison sentences by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace ― “political persecution.” On the similar time, she stated those that did issues that “they shouldn’t have carried out” needs to be handled higher whereas behind bars.
“OK, they bought charged for issues they shouldn’t have carried out, OK, that occurred, they deserve their day in courtroom, they deserve their due course of rights, however actually, my gosh, what’s taking place to those folks is so heartbreaking,” she stated. “I used to be in that jail, I noticed them, it’s so unhappy. They hadn’t bathed, they didn’t have haircuts, they couldn’t shave as a result of they weren’t vaccinated. They have been handled worse in the event that they weren’t vaccinated, however, what sort of nation are we?”
Greene added that pro-life activists who not too long ago made headlines for marching exterior of the Maryland house of Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh needs to be in jail.
Greene has gone backwards and forwards on whether or not she believes Trump supporters have been concerned within the destruction and violence which left 5 folks useless.
Again in April a few of her textual content messages to then-White Home chief of employees Mark Meadows through the 2021 assault have been printed, revealing that she thought the protesters have been members of antifa “dressed like Trump supporters.” However she additionally requested Meadows to induce Trump to calm the rioters, which Trump would possible not have been capable of do in the event that they have been antifa members, on condition that many members of this motion are from the far left and towards Trump.
“Please inform the President to calm folks,” her textual content message learn. “This isn’t the way in which to unravel something.”
A day later, she once more texted Meadows suggesting that Trump supporters have been certainly concerned, however that they have been determined and “instigated” by antifa.
“I don’t assume that President Trump brought on the assault on the Capitol. It’s not his fault. Antifa was combined within the crowd and instigated it, and sadly, folks adopted. However when folks strive every part and nobody listens and nothing works, I assume they assume they don't have any different selection,” she wrote.
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