Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace called on Republican lawmakers for showing “more visible outrage” at Republican MP Liz Cheney of Wyoming for voting for impeachment of former President Donald Trump than for promoting bizarre conspiracy theories by Georgia Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Some pro-Trump Republicans in the House of Representatives have called for Cheney’s removal from his No. 3 leadership position as president of the House Republican Conference after his January 13 impeachment vote. In the meantime, few Republican lawmakers have expressed public outrage after several reports of Greene’s past promotion of baseless conspiracy theories and support for violence against fellow lawmakers on social media.
“Do you have a situation now where there is more outrage within the Republican Party for Liz Cheney, a member of [Republican] leadership vote to challenge the [former] president is over – instead of some of those wild conspiracy theories being championed by Marjorie Taylor Greene, “Wallace pointed out during his show on Sunday.
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He suggested that Republicans should take action against Greene and asked whether she should potentially be expelled from Congress or removed from the committees.
“What are their options here?” Wallace asked speaker Susan Page, head of the Washington office to USA today. “I think that says a lot about where the Republican Party is now,” replied Page.
GOP minority leader Kevin McCarthy plans to have a meeting with Greene regarding his incendiary social media posts and bizarre allegations. “These comments are deeply disturbing and leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with Congresswoman about them,” Mark Bednar, McCarthy’s spokesman, told Axios last week.
Congressman Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who joined the other nine House Republicans in voting for Trump’s impeachment, said on Sunday that he would support Greene’s removal from committee duties, but resisted against expelling her from Congress.
“I would certainly expel her from the committee. In terms of eviction, I’m not sure why I’m in the middle. I think a district has every right to put whoever it wants there,” Kinzinger told NBC News’ Meet the press. “But we have every right to stand and say, ‘You don’t have a committee.’ And we definitely need to do that. “
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Newsweek he contacted McCarthy’s press representatives for further comment, but they did not respond immediately. A spokesman for Greene said Newsweek in an email stating that she was traveling and could not comment immediately.
She tweeted on Sunday, however, writing: “The radical Democratic crowd and their spokespeople on Fake News Media are trying to get me out because I refuse to apologize for our America First values.”
CNN first reported last week that Greene has repeatedly indicated that he supports the execution of prominent Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, through social media. In addition, Media Matters for America reported that Greene suggested in a 2018 Facebook post that a fire in California was started by an outer space laser. The congresswoman also defended unfounded conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as several mass shootings in the United States in recent years.