Rep. Jim McGovern Calls on Marjorie Taylor Greene to Resign After Holocaust-Mask Comparison
On 5/22/21 at 12:51 PM EDT
Democratic Representative Jim McGovern took to Twitter Saturday in order to call out Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for recently comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust. She is a deeply troubled person who needs to apologize & resign, McGovern wrote, before tagging House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and imploring him to address her antisemitism.
Rep. Greene’s anti-Semitic language comparing the systematic murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust to wearing a mask is beyond disturbing. She is a deeply troubled person who needs to apologize & resign. @GOPLeader needs to address her antisemitism.https://t.co/gAqrlL3bmL Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) May 22, 2021
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