Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace called on Republican lawmakers to show “more visible indignation” against GOP Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming for voting to accuse former GOP President Donald Trump of being the first-year GOP president. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s promotion of bizarre conspiracy theories.
Some pro-Trump Republicans in the House of Representatives have called for Cheney to be removed from her No. 3 leadership position as chair of the House Republican conference following her January 13 indictment. Meanwhile, few GOP lawmakers have expressed public outrage at multiple reports about Greene’s earlier promotion of unfounded conspiracy theories and support for violence against fellow lawmakers on social media.
‘You currently have a situation where there is more visible indignation within the IDP about Liz Cheney, a member of [Republican] leadership vote around the [former] president over – rather than advocating some of these wild conspiracy theories by Marjorie Taylor Greene, “Wallace pointed out during his show Sunday.
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He suggested Republicans take action against Greene and asked if she might be expelled from Congress or removed from the committees.
“What are their options here?” Wallace asked panel member Susan Page, head of the Washington bureau, for USA Today. “I think that tells you a lot about where the Republican Party is right now,” Page replied.
GOP House minority leader Kevin McCarthy plans to hold a meeting with Greene about her offensive social media messages and bizarre demands. “These remarks are deeply disturbing and leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the congresswoman about it,” McCarthy spokesman Mark Bednar told Axios last week.
Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who has joined the nine other Republicans from the House to accuse Trump, said Sunday he would support removing Greene from commission assignments, but he pushed back her completely to be expelled from Congress.
“I will definitely vote for her from the committee. As for the eviction, I’m not sure because I’m in the middle. I think a district has every right to state who they want,” Kinzinger said. NBC News said. Meet the press. “But we have every right to take a stand and say, ‘You do not get a committee.’ And we definitely have to do it. ‘
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Newsweek reached out to McCarthy’s press representatives for further comment, but they did not immediately respond. A Greene spokesman said Newsweek by email that she was traveling and would not be able to comment immediately.
She did tweet on Sunday, writing: “The radical democratic mob and their Fake News Media spokespersons are trying to take me out because I refuse to apologize for our America First values.”
CNN reported for the first time last week that Greene has repeatedly indicated that she supports the execution of leading Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, via social media. Media Matters for America also reported that Greene suggested in a 2018 Facebook post that a wildfire in California was started with a laser from outer space. The congresswoman also adopted previously unfounded conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as various mass shootings in the United States in recent years.