Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got called out during a committee hearing today for fundraising off her efforts to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
The dressing down of Greene came from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Thompson began by suggesting that Republicans are only pursuing the impeachment of Mayorkas to gain political advantage in the November election.
“Republican members of Congress sworn to support and defend the Constitution are rejecting the framers’ clear intent and over two centuries of precedent in favor of a sham impeachment,” Thompson said. “The sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas is a baseless political stunt by extreme MAGA Republicans.”
He then added:
“Chairman Greene, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, and others have pushed for and even fundraised based on this pre-planned, predetermined scapegoating of the Secretary.”
“In a process akin to throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, Republicans have cooked up vague, unprecedented grounds to impeach Secretary Mayorkas, refusal to follow the law, and a breach of public trust.”
Congressman Thompson is absolutely right. Republicans are backing a multiply-indicted man, Donald Trump, who is facing financial ruin and may also be convicted of stealing classified documents from the White House before ballots are cast later this year. They can feel themselves on the verge of losing worse than they did in 2020 and they’re going scorched earth in a desperate attempt to distract from that reality.
Vote the GOP out. Every damn one of them.
