What did Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) say about organizing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol?
This weekend Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said if she were in charge of planning the January 6th attack, they would have “won.”
When speaking at a Young Republicans conference over the weekend, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene made jokes about her involvement in the January 6th insurrection.
“If Steve Banon and I had organized that [January 6th], we would have won,” said the representative from Georgia, adding that “it would have been armed.”
These comments are just a set of many made by the Congresswoman about January 6th, which occurred after she said there should be no peaceful transfer of power to President Biden.
While the Congresswoman has since said the comments were made in jest, many have criticized her for making light of that attack that ended the lives of several people and left dozens wounded.
Additionally, these “jokes” differ grateful from the MTG’s feelings during the attack, when she sent a text to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meddows that read, “Mark, I have just been told there is an active shooter on the first floor,” and directed him to “tell the president to calm people,” because “this,” being the insurrection, “was not the way to solve anything.”
Con. Taylor Greene refuses to apologize
The Congresswoman’s comments make clear that she wants to play down the attack’s significance and create space between the insurrection and the far-right movement whose candidates lost handily in the midterms. Since her speech, she has released a statement saying that she will not apologize and that since the events on January 6th she has been made a political target by Democrats.
In the statement, she also accuses Democrats of not understanding sarcasm, another attempt to cast her remarks as a joke.
Come January the GOP will soon control the House of Representatives.
MTG and other members of the Freedom Caucus are pushing for investigations to be opened into topics related to the 2020 election, this may be a risky bet with 2024 on the horizon. A new poll from Quinnipiac found that six in ten voters see Donald Trump running for president as a “bad thing,” which does not bode well for many of his allies on Capitol Hill.
Poll after poll shows that voters are worried about inflation, access to healthcare, climate change, immigration, and ensuring their children have access to quality education. While the Congresswoman’s speech may have played well for the conference’s audience, the results of last month’s election indicate that many moderate and independent voters may not be so interested in rehashing 2020.