Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Sick.) laid into his colleague, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), on Sunday after her legal professionals characterised her as a sufferer, now not a offender, of the U.S. Capitol assault.
“For Marjorie Taylor Greene to mention she’s a sufferer. It’s wonderful how other people like her assault everyone for being a sufferer,” Kinzinger mentioned on CBS’ “Face The Country.”
“I imply, she assaulted I feel a survivor’s circle of relatives from a college taking pictures sooner or later in D.C.,” he mentioned. “She stood outdoor of congresswoman’s place of business and yelled at her via a mail slot and mentioned she was once too scared to return out and confront her.
“After which when Marjorie Taylor Greene is faced, she’s unexpectedly a sufferer and a deficient helpless congresswoman that’s simply seeking to do her task.”
“That’s insane,” he added.
Kinzinger was once apparently referring to 2 movies of Greene in 2019 earlier than she was once elected to Congress. In a single, she is observed consistently harassing Parkland taking pictures survivor David Hogg close to the U.S. Capitol. In every other, Greene screams abuse at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the mailbox to her place of business, telling her to “prevent being a child and forestall locking your door and are available out and face the Americans that you simply serve.”
Remaining week, legal professionals representing Greene in a criminal fight to stay her identify at the number one poll in Georgia argued in a court docket submitting that Greene “was once now not a player within the January sixth violence—she was once a sufferer.”
“She was once sequestered for hours, she was once scared and at a loss for words, and he or she and her circle of relatives feared for her lifestyles,” legal professionals argued, claiming Greene had
A bunch of Greene’s constituents represented by means of Loose Speech for Other folks, a company that advocates for truthful elections, is attempting to disqualify Greene from working for reelection, arguing she violated the Fourteenth Modification by means of collaborating within the Jan. 6, 2021, rise up.
