VSwas in August 2020, she had just won the Republican Party primary in Georgia and Donald Trump tweeted that he saw in her one of the “Future stars” training. A few weeks later, on November 3, Marjorie Taylor Greene entered the House of Representatives, elected by 14e Georgia district, in the rural northwest of the state. She is now one of the most ardent supporters of the former president, of those who regret nothing, upright in their boots, even as Donald Trump has retired to Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and lets the doubts about his future.
As the Republican Party tries to turn the page on the real estate mogul, in a matter of weeks, the 46-year-old woman monopolizes the front of the stage, despite a series of warnings from her own camp, reports the media Axios.
His presence in Congress does not go unnoticed. During the first parliamentary session, on January 3, she wore a mask on which was written “Trump Won” (“Trump won”). Not hiding her affinities with the QAnon conspiratorial movement, she also tweeted in mid-January that the Georgia senatorial elections were marred by fraud, which had earned her a few hours of suspension of her account.
On Friday, January 29, one of her Democratic colleagues in the House, Missouri MP Cori Bush, announced on MSNBC that she had been forced to move her office away from that of Marjorie Greene for reasons of ” security “. During a meeting in the corridors of the Capitol, Mr.me Bush asked Mme Greene and her team respect mask-wearing instructions, to which she heard herself answer that she must not… encourage violence by supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
Cori Bush clarified that she was moving her office, not by “Fear” by Mme Greene but because she wants to be able to work without spending her time checking “If a white supremacist in Congress by the name of Marjorie Taylor Greene … isn’t conspiring against us.”
A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media. I… https://t.co/lWktcrAlmK
A succession of slippages
Before arriving on Capitol Hill, Marjorie Taylor Greene had started making waves. On its social networks, its positions are a real catalog of conspiracy theories. In June 2020, Politico reported that she had posted hours of videos on Facebook in which she multiplied racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic comments, stating in particular that blacks “Are held in slavery by the Democratic Party”, and that George Soros, a “Mega-donor Jewish Democrat, is a Nazi”.
Regarding 9/11, she felt that there was no evidence that a plane had crashed into the Pentagon. In January 2019, she “liked” a comment on Facebook which suggested to assassinate, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, before a few months later, to post a photo of her armed with an assault rifle presenting her as “The worst nightmare” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaid, Ilhan Omar, three elected Democrats hated by the Republican Party.
Parkland 2018 shooting survivors just called on the Republican Party to publicly condemn it
For their part, the survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida (17 dead) have just called on the Republican Party to condemn her publicly for suggesting that this killing was a staged coup to undermine the 2e amendment. A video recently uploaded shows it, on the outskirts of the Capitol, provoking David Hogg, one of the survivors who became one of the leading figures of the movement fighting against the gun lobby. To drive home the point, March for Our Lives, a group formed after the massacre and working to prevent gun violence, posted on Twitter a one word statement to Mr.me Greene, “Resign” and launched a petition in this direction.
For its part, the Republican Jewish Coalition issued a statement condemning the behavior of the elected representative and recalling that it opposed her candidacy in 2020, “Because of his speeches” and of “His promotion of conspiracy theories”. Indeed, in a message unearthed by the site Media Matters, she implied that Camp Fire, a devastating blaze that swept through California in the fall of 2018, could have been triggered by solar rays directed from space by work by Solaren, which has partnered with energy supplier Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), one of whose board members is also vice chairman of investment bank Rothschild. It doesn’t matter if the investigation concluded that it was triggered by power cables belonging to PG&E.
A thorn in the side of the Republican Party
These revelations prompted Jimmy Gomez, an elected Democrat from California, to present a resolution calling for his expulsion from Congress; around fifty of its colleges have said they are ready to support it, but the process has little chance of success. If the Constitution allows two Houses of Congress to sanction their members (Article I, Clause 5, Section II), the expulsion of one of them requires a two-thirds majority to pass. This procedure has been used twenty times in history, recalls CNN, the last time in 2002.
Two other elected Democrats, Nikema Williams and Sara Jacobs, plan to introduce a resolution to censor Mme Greene. This procedure is easier to carry out and only requires a simple majority to pass. But the sanction could have the opposite effect of what is sought. The Republican could well wear this mark of infamy as a badge of honor, proving that she is the victim of the establishment that she is rightly criticizing.
Nancy Pelosi called on Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House Republicans to take responsibility, as he did in January 2019, when he sanctioned Steve King, a representative for Iowa who openly defended white supremacism.
More is needed to push back the chosen one. Mme Greene responded to critics with the challenge: “I will never back down. I’ll never give up “, she wrote, Friday, January 29, on Twitter. Adding a disturbing warning to members of his party: “If the Republicans chick, let the Democrats and the media kill me, they risk opening the door to eliminating all Republicans. “
A Message to the Mob from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene https://t.co/bdbG4OGrlK
In an editorial, the New York Times apostrophied the Republican Party, suggesting that Marjorie Taylor Greene is well overstepped and that it is time to react. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, who tried it, has just paid the price. Monday 1er February, he, without naming her, called her “Cancer” for the formation. “The person who suggested that maybe there was no plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, that the appalling school shootings were staged, that the Clintons are responsible for the crash of JFK Jr.’s plane does not live in the real world “, the Kentucky senator argued in a statement to the media The Hill.
Spike to which the interested party replied sharply: “The real cancer of the Republican Party is the weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. This is why we are losing our country. “
The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. This is why we are losing our country.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy should in turn try to reason with her. And risk dividing the Party a little more.
