In the surest sign yet that members of Congress who allegedly participated in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol are getting worried by what the House Select Committee on the Capitol insurrection have already uncovered as they prepare to hold public hearings next month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) just had a very public meltdown when a reporter from NBC News attempted to ask her a question about what transpired on that fateful day.
Scott Wong was trying to question Greene in the hallway outside her House office when she got very agitated and declared:
“The American people are fed up with this over-dramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time. They are sick and tired of Jan. 6 — it’s over, OK?”
Wong also asked Greene if she thought it had been a mistake for Republicans to boycott participating in the Jan. 6 committee, to which she angrily replied:
“People are rotting in jail pre-trial because they have been arrested for it. Why don’t you go to the jail and visit those people? Everyone is being prosecuted that should be prosecuted. Why don’t you care about things that honestly care about instead of continuing on with this? OK?
“Go ask about BLM and antifa rioters. See of they’re rotting in jail!”
Greene was so concerned about her comments to Wong that she felt it necessary to share video of the encounter on Twitter along with her own spin on the confrontation:
“Every week the press asks Republicans divisive questions about each other like this, trying to get me to say something bad or criticize @GOPLeader.
“Then only report a twisted sound bite of our words.
“I’m not playing the game anymore.”
However, by admitting that she felt a need to comment on the brief interview, Greene made it perfectly clear that she is indeed “playing the game” and certainly sounds more than a little bit worried about what may be revealed regarding her actions prior to and on the day of the Capitol riots that left five people dead, including a member of the Capitol Police Force.
Greene is also facing disqualification from the November ballot in Georgia as a group of her constituents have filed suit to have her declared ineligible to run under a section of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which reads:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
Greene and others like her (i.e. Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley) should be very worried about what is about to transpire for the American people to see and consider just months before they go to vote.
