US Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, speaks to reporters aft attending grounds by US Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier a House Judiciary Committee proceeding connected “Oversight of the United States Department of Justice,” connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, DC, October 21, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
Drama connected the House level developed erstwhile Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted Reps. Jamie Raskin and Liz Cheney arsenic the House was voting connected the criminal contempt solution against Steve Bannon.
The speech with Greene devolved to “Jewish abstraction lasers” and the Georgia Republican accusing Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, of not investigating the unit of Black Lives Matter protests.
“This is simply a joke,” Greene said successful a raised dependable to Raskin and Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, engaging successful an altercation with the brace successful the mediate of the House floor.
Then Greene walked person and said straight to Raskin, “Why don’t you attraction astir the American people?”
Raskin replied, “You correspond the American people.”
Video of the House level documents Greene approaching Raskin and Cheney. Greene waves her hands successful the air, and astatine 1 constituent Cheney points her digit successful the aerial backmost astatine Greene earlier turning her back. A enactment of seats separated the 3 for the bulk of the time.
Cheney responded to Greene by saying she was a “joke” and referred to a erstwhile Greene remark astir Jewish abstraction lasers, per root acquainted with the interaction.
“I ne'er said that!” Greene yelled backmost astatine Cheney. “You’re done. You’re a joke, Liz. Your enactment rejected you.” As Greene walked distant from the pair, she suggested: “Why don’t you spell analyse thing that matters to the American people?”
Greene’s comments toward Cheney are conscionable the latest illustration of however tensions proceed to boil betwixt members of the Freedom Caucus and Cheney, who was voted retired of her GOP enactment presumption and is viewed by the close helping of her caucus arsenic having betrayed them by joining the Democratic-led committee investigating January 6.
After the altercation, Raskin told reporters, “She started screaming astatine Liz.”
Raskin supplied much details aft the fact, stating that Greene was asking him to analyse the unit surrounding Black Lives Matter protests.
“What she said to maine was, ‘When are you going to bash your probe of the unit surrounding Black Lives Matter?’ And I said, ‘Like with Kyle Rittenhouse who went and killed 2 Black Lives Matter protesters? I’m definite determination volition beryllium an accidental for america to get to that,'” Raskin said. “And then, you know, it degenerated it from determination arsenic you tin imagine.”
Describing the heated speech betwixt Cheney and Greene specifically, Raskin said Greene “seemed to person immoderate benignant of past beef with the erstwhile seat of the House Republican Conference Liz Cheney implicit the Jewish abstraction lasers happening oregon thing similar that. And she denied that she’d ever said that and past blamed it connected the mainstream media.”
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