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Republican lawmakers turn on Marjorie Taylor Greene after she compares mask mandates to the Holocaust
REPUBLICAN lawmakers have turned on Marjorie Taylor Greene and slammed her “evil lunacy” after she compared mask mandates to the Holocaust.
Their ire was struck after Rep. Greene’s appearance on the conservative cable network Real America’s Voice earlier this week in which she slammed Nancy Pelosi and likened masks to stars worn by Jews in Nazi Germany.
Their ire was struck after Rep. Greene’s appearance on the conservative cable network Real America’s Voice earlier this week[/caption]
“This woman [Pelosi] is mentally ill,” she began.
“You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
“This is exactly the type of abuse Nancy Pelosi is talking about,” she spouted.
Greene, a former follower of Q-Anon who previously claimed 9/11 was a hoax, has been widely panned by Democrats since she issued the remarks.
A number of GOP lawmakers have also since come forward to condemn Greene.
Greene, a former follower of Q-Anon who previously claimed 9/11 was a hoax, has been widely panned by Democrats since she issued the remarks[/caption]
Among them is Rep. Liz Cheney, who was recently ousted from her leadership position for refuting Donald Trump’s election fraud claims, who blasted Greene’s comparisons as “evil lunacy.”
Similarly, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of three House Republicans who voted both to impeach Trump and remove Greene from her committee assignments, said her remarks were “absolute sickness.”
And Rep. Peter Meijer said on CNN on Sunday that Greene’s comments were “beyond reprehensible.”
“Well, first off, any comparisons to the Holocaust it’s beyond reprehensible,” he said.
“This is — I don’t even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that, frankly amps up and plays into a lot of the anti-Semitism that we’ve been seeing in our society today.”
Liz Cheney, who was recently ousted from her leadership position for refuting Donald Trump’s election fraud claims, blasted Greene’s comparisons as ‘evil lunacy’[/caption]
Rep. Kizinger said the remarks amounted to ‘absolute sickness’[/caption]
Greene’s comments Real America’s Voice came as the Georgia congresswoman accused Pelosi of being a hypocrite for asking GOP members to prove they have all been vaccinated before entering the Chamber without a mask.
Her reference to Jews wearing a “gold star” referred to the millions who were forced to wear a Star of David on their clothes before being sent to concentration camps and murdered during World War II.
Amid the criticism, Greene has doubled down on her comments and insists she didn’t say anything wrong.
“I stand by all of my statements, I said nothing wrong,” she told KPNX.
“I think any rational Jewish person didn’t like what happened in Nazi Germany & any rational Jewish person doesn’t like what’s happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies.”
Greene has doubled down on her comments and insists she didn’t say anything wrong[/caption]
Meanwhile, the American Jewish Congress has called on Greene to apologize and retract her comments in a tweet.
“You can never compare health-related restrictions with yellow stars, gas chambers & other Nazi atrocities,” the group wrote.
“Such comparisons demean the Holocaust & contaminate American political speech. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene must immediately retract and apologize.”
A Change.org petition to have House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy expel Greene from Congress has also gained 39,500 signatures as of Sunday night.
Greene has been an extremely polarizing figure on Capitol Hill since her election last November.
A former follower of the Q-Anon conspiracy theory, Greene has come under fire for previously calling 9/11 and various school shootings hoaxes, while also appearing to encourage violence against Pelosi.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned her for spreading “loony lies”, and she was removed from her committee duties in February in a vote backed by Republicans.
While she later insisted she was “allowed to believe things that weren’t true,” in the months since Greene’s behavior has continued to cause concern among Congress.
Earlier this month, A video from 2019 surfaced showing Greene harassing Democratic firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez through the mail slot of her Capitol office.
“Take off your diaper… If you want to be a big girl, you need to get rid of your diaper and come out and be able to talk to the American citizens,” she is heard calling out in the clip.
And on Saturday, Greene lashed out again at AOC in a wild tweet after the progressive denounced recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks in New York.
Greene has publicly clashed with AOC numerous times[/caption]
AOC wrote: “We will never, ever tolerate anti-Semitism here in NY or anywhere in the world. The recent surge in attacks is horrifying. We stand with our Jewish communities in condemning this violence.”
However, Greene has repeatedly slammed AOC over her stance on weapons sales to Israel.
On Saturday, she seethed: “AOC you’re responsible for attacks on Jewish people bc of your hate-Israel stance against Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorists Hamas, calling Israel an apartheid state, & supporting terrorist groups.
“Aligning yourself with terrorists means your a terrorist.”
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George T. Berish tweeted back to Greene: “Oh Marge. Now you’ve gone off the deep end.
“Holding AOC responsible for the Middle East’s problems is really out there. Not as out there as the Space Lasers, but out there.”
He was referring to a recently unearthed social media post, where Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene peddled a conspiracy theory that wildfires in California were caused by a Jewish-controlled space laser.
