Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims the insurgents were not, in fact, Republicans or Trump supporters, but merely anti-government.
In support of her argument, she said the insurgents tried to thwart the Republican Republicans’ efforts to contest Biden’s election victory.
“If the # Jan6 organizers were Trump supporters, why then did they attack us while we objected to college ballot votes for Joe Biden? The attack DESTROYED us what we had been preparing for weeks, which ruined our efforts on behalf of Trump and his constituents. ‘
If the # Jan6 organizers were Trump supporters, why then did they attack us while we objected to college ballot votes for Joe Biden?
The attack reassured our objection that we had been preparing for weeks, which ruined our efforts on behalf of Trump and his constituents.
Prosecute
– Marjorie Taylor Greene @ (@mtgreenee) February 9, 2021
Greene, whose support for violent extremist conspiracy theories recently led the Democratic House to remove her from influential committee assignments, said members of both parties in Congress hid in fear during the riots, and there were also pipe bombs in placed the headquarters. of the Republican and Democratic National Committees.
“They did NOT target just one party. They targeted Republicans and Democrats. They were all against the government,” Green wrote in another tweet.
“The Capitol attack was planned and organized, NOT instigated by President Trump at the moment, and NO Republican member was involved. We were ALL the victims on that day. And once again, Trump is the victim of the endless witch hunt that hated food, “Greene continues.
She writes that the indictment is a democratic ‘circus’ meant to brainwash the masses and divert attention from the democratic policies that are ‘quickly forced into place’ to destroy American lives and ‘our freedoms’. steal’.
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Despite Greene’s allegations that the insurgents were merely anti-government rioters, several arrested rioters said they were acting on Trump’s orders to reverse a so – called turbulent election.
On January 6, when both chambers of Congress met to ratify incumbent President Joe Biden’s victory in Electoral College, Greene voted against confirming the results. In a tweet of December 30, she writes: “I refuse to confirm a stolen election. It is the duty of Congress to ensure the integrity of our election. On January 6, I will #FightForTrump. “
Trump’s own election security agency, his justice department and more than 60 court cases over judges he has appointed have said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud that ‘stole’ his election.
Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger became an outspoken critic of Greene, accusing her rhetoric of inspiring anti-government insurgents.
In previous comments on Greene’s social media, she pleaded guilty to violence against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused of cutting off and wearing a child’s face and said Obama had created the deferred action for child receipts. immigration program for immigrants to rape children and harvest their organs.
Last week, Greene announced that she had renounced her belief in QAnon, the conspiracy theory that democratic and Hollywood elites engage in satanic and cannibalistic international pedophile sex trafficking that Trump threatens to expose. However, in a Feb. 1 tweet, she referred to all of Trump’s opponents as “pedos.”
Newsweek Greene’s office contacted for comment.