Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) scrambled Sunday to wriggle out of duty for the appointment of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to the Home Homeland Safety Committee, though she questioned if the 9/11 terror assault on the Pentagon truly occurred.
“She doubted 9/11. She doubted a aircraft hit the Pentagon,” ABC’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz identified to McCaul. “She later apologized for that, however she mentioned that in 2018. Ought to she be on that committee? You have been on that committee.”
“I chaired the committee,” McCaul replied. “You realize, these conspiracy theories that folks go down, I disagree with these. I’m having to debunk this. This one was the worst violation; 9/11 was not a hoax. It was carried out by al Qaeda. There’s no query in my thoughts.”
However the lawmaker insisted that Greene “has matured ... I believe she realizes she doesn’t know every little thing, and she or he desires to be taught and develop into, I believe, extra of a group participant.”
It’s “incumbent upon extra senior members to attempt to ... deliver her in and attempt to educate her that these theories that she has will not be correct,” he added.
“Would you have got somewhat seen a special selection?” Raddatz puzzled.
McCaul shot again: “I’m not the chair of that committee, and I’m not the speaker, both.”
New Home Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was compelled to supply a number of key concessions to the right-wing GOP extremists in Congress with a purpose to win his speakership. They included, in keeping with boasts from Greene, key committee posts that many critics think about utterly inappropriate. She has additionally been appointed to serve on the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee, though she nonetheless baselessly insisted the 2020 election was rigged.
Democrats stripped Greene of her committee assignments in 2021 for her previous racist, antisemitic and violent remarks, together with her declaration that she would have been armed and would have “received” the Jan. 6 rebellion.
CNN commentator S.E. Cupp on Saturday known as Greene’s Homeland Safety Committee submit “extremely alarming.” As for the lawmaker’s doubts that 9/11 occurred, Cupp mentioned: “I don’t know the place” Greene was on 9/11; “I used to be in New York Metropolis — working.”
Cupp known as it particularly “appalling” that an election “denier, conspiracy theorist, liar, seditionist” could be making choices about nationwide safety on the committee.
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