Conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tried to query a witness throughout a listening to on so-called “left-wing arranged violence” on Tuesday.
However she could have gotten greater than she was once anticipating with the answer.
Greene started by means of mispronouncing the identify of the witness, Amy Spitalnick, a senior guide on extremism at Human Rights First, a human rights group. Then, Greene prompt that individuals who supply abortions are the actual “white supremacists,” pausing mid-rant to assault Spitalnick.
“You suppose that is humorous, Omit Spitalnick? Is that this humorous to you?” she requested. “Is young children being murdered within the womb humorous to you, since you’re smirking and guffawing at me presently.”
Spitalnick fired again with an overly critical reaction ― now not about abortions, however the actual danger of white supremacist violence.
“What’s now not humorous are the Black folks and Hispanic folks and Jewish folks and Muslim individuals who had been murdered in synagogue, in church, in supermarkets, in mosque, by means of white supremacists,” she mentioned.
“Have you learnt that all-color individuals are murdered?” Greene responded. “That may be a truth, that each and every unmarried colour particular person has been murdered. That’s now not abnormal. It’s now not simply that individuals of colour are murdered, white individuals are murdered too.”
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Greene additionally attacked trans folks and claimed “trans terrorism” was once in the back of mass shooters, and took offense on the time period “cisgender.”
Spitalnick later referred to as her dealings with Greene and others at the appropriate “appalling.”
Greene, a detailed best friend of Space Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), final 12 months spoke at a white nationalist tournament.
She has downplayed the specter of white supremacist violence.
“White supremacy shouldn’t be the principle goal,” she mentioned final 12 months.
Greene has additionally driven conspiracy theories about mass shootings, and final 12 months implied that they may had been staged.