Last Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had to testify under oath about what role she played in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in response to a lawsuit seeking to keep her off the November ballot.
What are the chances Greene will be prevented from running for reelection? According to attorney Ron Fein, a “coded” tweet Greene sent is the smoking gun which will prove the case against her.
Fein was a guest on MSNBC and told host Ayman Mohyeldin:
“She worked with the planners of some of the events of Jan. 6th and then the day before the attack, she signaled to her followers a code word, meant to storm federal buildings and supposedly overthrow tyrants. So, we are going to ask her about all of that and more.”
That coded tweet Greene sent referred to refusing to certify the Electoral College vote as a “1776 moment,” Fein explained.
The complaint against Greene cites that tweet:
“‘1776’ was used as a codeword for violence in the run-up to January 6. For instance, Ali Alexander, a violent extremist who listed Representative Greene as a speaker at his January 6 event, and referred to Greene as a ‘friend,’ replied to a tweet by Greene on December 30, 2020, promising that ‘1776 is *always* an option’ if objections to certification were blocked. The responses indicate it was understood as a call to storm the Capitol.”
Later in that same legal document is this paragraph:
“Alexander increasingly used references to ‘1776’ between December 30 and January 6 as a call for violence if Trump was not installed as president for another four years. By this time, it was well known that events Alexander planned and promoted developed into violence. Similarly, Enrique Tarrio, until recently the leader of the ‘Proud Boys,’ had on hand a detailed plan for the far-right extremist group to distract police, swarm federal buildings, and obstruct their functioning. The title of the document describing the plan was ‘1776 Returns.’”
The tweet and surrounding documentation, according to the lawsuit, are proof of Greene’s participation in an insurrection against the government:
“Specifically, her remarks had the intent and effect of signaling to her supporters that she was calling not for peaceful protest, but for violent resistance, to a peaceful transfer of power to the president-elect, in defiance of the Constitution.”
Here’s Ron Fein on MSNBC:
