Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday mentioned “no person can persuade” her that the rioters in the back of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol weren’t anti-fascist protesters and that she “can not look ahead to an actual investigation” to happen, in an obvious snub to the Area committee investigation’s year-long probe.
Greene was once talking with fellow 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, often 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 surprise on the day’s violence.
“I used to be very dissatisfied. I by no means anticipated the rest like that. And when that took place I assumed, that is antifa, and no person can persuade me it was once so-called Trump supporters, and we all know there’s so much fallacious there, and I will not look ahead to an actual investigation,” she mentioned, whilst pointing a finger at anti-fascist protesters.
The Area’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 choice to invade the Capitol. One former White Area aide testified that Trump knew his supporters had been armed and dangerous violence when he suggested them to march to the Capitol.
In spite of this and different mounting proof appearing the opposite, Greene went on to name the government’s reaction to the rebellion ― which has ended in greater than 800 arrests and greater than 200 prison sentences by means of the U.S. Legal professional’s Administrative center ― “political persecution.” On the identical time, she mentioned those that did issues that “they shouldn’t have completed” will have to be handled higher whilst in the back of bars.
“OK, they were given charged for issues they shouldn’t have completed, OK, that took place, they deserve their day in court docket, they deserve their due procedure rights, however truthfully, my gosh, what’s going down to those other folks is so heartbreaking,” she mentioned. “I used to be in that prison, 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 had been handled worse in the event that they weren’t vaccinated, however, what sort of nation are we?”
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Greene added that pro-life activists who just lately made headlines for marching outdoor of the Maryland house of Superb Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh will have to be in prison.
Greene has long gone from side to side on whether or not she believes Trump supporters had been concerned within the destruction and violence which left 5 other folks lifeless.
Again in April a few of her textual content messages to then-White Area leader of workforce Mark Meadows right through the 2021 assault had been printed, revealing that she concept the protesters had been contributors of antifa “dressed like Trump supporters.” However she additionally requested Meadows to induce Trump to calm the rioters, which Trump would most likely no longer were ready to do in the event that they had been antifa contributors, for the reason that many contributors of this motion are from the a long way left and towards Trump.
“Please inform the President to calm other folks,” her textual content message learn. “This isn’t methods to remedy the rest.”
An afternoon later, she once more texted Meadows suggesting that Trump supporters had been certainly concerned, however that they had been determined and “instigated” by means of antifa.
“I don’t suppose that President Trump led to the assault at the Capitol. It’s no longer his fault. Antifa was once combined within the crowd and instigated it, and unfortunately, other folks adopted. But if other folks take a look at the whole thing and no person listens and not anything works, I assume they believe they’ve no different selection,” she wrote.