Congresswoman Cori Bush ‘scolded’ by Marjorie Taylor Greene, changing offices

• A Democratic Congresswoman is moving her offices to move away from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• Congresswoman Cori Bush tweeted on Friday that Greene and her team “scolded” her in a hallway.
• Greene’s adoption of dangerous conspiracy theories angered his colleagues.
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Congresswoman Cori Bush announced on Friday that she is relocating after an unmasked MP Marjorie Taylor Greene “scolded” her and her team in a hallway.

Bush, a freshman Democrat from Missouri, said in a tweet that he decided to move offices for the safety of his team and herself. Greene and Bush’s offices are located on the ground floor of the Longworth House Office Building, according to congressional websites.

Greene, a newly elected Republican from Georgia, angered colleagues on both sides of the corridor by selling dangerous conspiracies associated with the QAnon movement and refusing to wear a mask on the Hill.

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Bush added that Congress should pass a resolution that she presented in the wake of the January 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol to investigate and potentially expel members like Greene, who promoted former President Donald Trump’s conspiracies that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

—Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 29, 2021

Also on Friday, Punchbowl News reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “intervened directly” in the matter so that Bush could be transferred to a new position after being informed of the altercation, an unprecedented action less than a month before the 117th Congress.

Progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in support of Bush and scolded minority leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, for “losing control of his caucus” and allowing threats “to be unchecked”.

Representatives for Greene and Bush did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.

In a January 18 tweet, Greene accused Bush, a racial justice activist, of leading the group of protesters who marched through police reform in an upscale part of St. Louis during national demonstrations in the summer of 2020. The group was welcomed by wealthy lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who left their home brandishing weapons against the protesters.

—Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) January 18, 2021

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Greene won the second round of primaries in August in the open race for the deeply republican 14th congressional district in northwest Georgia and easily sailed to win the general election, despite concerns from some Republicans about his voluminous history of defending racism, Islamophobia and conspiracy theories associated with the broad QAnon movement.

A new report by the liberal media surveillance group Media Matters revealed that Greene posted in support of false conspiracy theories that the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the February 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, were staged by the government or “false flags.”

A newly reappeared video showed Greene berating and harassing Parkland student and arms control activist David Hogg as he walked to the Capitol to meet lawmakers in March 2019.

CNN also recently reported on activities on Facebook, where Greene responded and liked posts stating that FBI agents and leading Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Pelosi, should be executed.

And most recently, Media Matters revealed a long 2018 Facebook post in which Greene invoked anti-Semitic tropes to suggest that the deadly California camp fire was caused by a space laser possibly connected to Rotschchild Inc.

Although McCarthy said she would have a “conversation” with Greene about distributing posts on social media, she has yet to face any kind of official punishment for her caucus, such as being denied a committee assignment.

Pelosi and other Democrats criticized leading Republicans for appointing Greene to the House Education and Work Committee, because of his adoption of conspiracy theories surrounding school shootings and his harassment of student gun reform advocates.

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