Greeneâs Holocaust Comparisons Cause New Headaches for G.O.P.
Republican leaders condemned the latest anti-Semitic statements by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, but their slow response and refusal to punish her reflected tacit backing.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeneâs comments were an unwelcome distraction for Republicans as they sought to unify around a political message.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
May 25, 2021, 7:14 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON â House Republican leaders on Tuesday broke nearly a week of silence about comments by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia comparing mask and vaccine mandates to the treatment of Jews by Nazis during the Holocaust, condemning her language but stopping short of punishing her.
Greene s Holocaust Comparisons Cause New Headaches for G O P
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As a native of New Jersey state motto: “Oh yeah, who says?” I am congenitally immune to conspiracy theories.
Also impervious to the imbecile insults of he-man Trumpists obsessed with the imagined sexual preferences of strangers. While there is no level of invective to which I am incapable of sinking, editors urge me to keep it clean.
“You guys sleigh me,” one guy taunted the other day, regarding the Democrats’ alleged loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party.
I mean, why bother?
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Today I live in Arkansas, where our cockamamie legislature is in the process of enacting a Stand Your Ground law, which means that if you send me a hostile message and then get in my face, I’ll be legally entitled to shoot you dead.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene As a native of New Jersey state motto: Oh yeah, who says? I am congenitally immune to conspiracy theories. Also impervious to the imbecile insults of he-man Trumpists obsessed with the imagined sexual preferences of strangers. While there is no level of invective to which I am incapable of sinking, editors urge me to keep it clean. You guys sleigh me, one guy taunted the other day regarding the Democrats alleged loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. I mean, why bother? Today I live in Arkansas, where our idiot legislature is in the process of enacting a Stand Your Ground law, which means that if you send me a hostile message and then get in my face, I ll be legally entitled to shoot you dead.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene had just finished questioning whether a plane really flew into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and flatly stating that President Barack Obama was secretly Muslim when she paused to offer an aside implicating another former president in a crime.
“That’s another one of those Clinton murders,” Ms Greene said, referring to John F. Kennedy Jr.’s death in a 1999 plane crash, suggesting that he had been assassinated because he was a potential rival to Hillary Clinton for a New York Senate seat.
Ms Greene casually unfurled the cascade of dangerous and patently untrue conspiracy theories in a previously unreported 40-minute video that was originally posted to YouTube in 2018. It provides a window into the warped worldview amplified by the freshman Republican congresswoman from Georgia, who in the three months since she was elected has created a national brand for herself as a conservative provocateur who has proudly brought th
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