“All of this led to my decision to move my Taylor Greene office to the safety of my team,” Bush said in a statement.
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Congresswoman Cori Bush, from Missouri, is moving her office to stay away from her Republican counterpart Marjorie Taylor Greene after a discussion about adhering to COVID’s security measures.
Bush said the confrontation with Taylor Greene and his team took place on January 13, while she was heading to the House for a vote. Taylor Greene, she said, “came up behind me, talking loudly on her phone, but she wasn’t wearing a mask.”
It was a day after several House representatives said they contracted the coronavirus after taking shelter with Taylor Greene during the attack on the Capitol. A video from that day showed at least six Republican members of Congress, including Taylor Greene, refusing the masks offered to them in the room.
“Concerned about the health of my team, other members of Congress and their parliamentary staff, I repeatedly asked her to put on a mask,” said Bush. “Taylor Greene and his team responded by scolding me, with an employee shouting, ‘Stop inciting violence with the Black Lives Matter.'”
Bush also quoted a tweet about Taylor Greene’s Martin Luther King Jr. day, which cited a statement by the Texas Republican Party president falsely accusing Bush of “leading the crowd that called for the rape, murder and house fire” of a couple in St. Louis, who aimed their guns at the Black Lives Matter protesters.
Bush participated in the protest, and the couple named her leader of what they called “an out-of-control mob” in a brief appearance at the Republican National Convention. (The photos show that the protesters were passing by his house and there is no indication that the couple was being targeted.)
Bush said the tweet had targeted her as a target for Taylor Greene’s followers.
A Marjorie Taylor Greene without a mask and her team scolded me in a hallway. She targeted me and others on social media. I’m moving my office from hers to the safety of my team. I requested the expulsion of members who incited the insurrection from day one. Bring H.Res 25 for a vote.
“In the context of Taylor Greene’s repeated endorsements of the execution of Democratic politicians before taking office, Taylor Greene’s renewed and repeated antagonism to the black lives movement directed at me personally is of grave concern,” Bush said in a statement. “All of this led to my decision to move my Taylor Greene office to the safety of my team.”
The change of office was ordered by the Mayor, Nancy Pelosi.
Taylor Greene responded in a tweet, calling Bush a liar and leader of a “mob”.
The video shows someone shouting, “Put on a mask”, while Taylor Greene records herself talking. She then yells at the person, who repeats, “Put on a mask.”
Rep. @CoriBush is the leader of the St. Louis terrorist mafia Black Lives Matter who broke into a closed neighborhood to threaten the McCloskeys’ lives. She’s lying to you. She scolded me. Maybe Dep. Bush didn’t realize that I was live on video, but I have the receipts. https://t.co/CJjnI3ZTjC
Taylor Greene also launched a “Message to the crowd” on Friday, when she warned her supporters that if “the Democrats and the Fake News media take me out,” eventually the “vicious mob of the canceled culture [will] take each of you out. “
“More MAGA reinforcements are on the way,” she added.
Taylor Greene, a believer in the massive illusion of QAnon who is known for making racist comments, is among the newly elected Republican lawmakers who have repeatedly denied that Donald Trump had lost the 2020 election, even when they embraced their own victories.
Taylor Greene continued to lie about the election results after being installed in the House and said before the inauguration that Trump would remain president. The day after the Capitol riots, she blamed violence on “Antifa / BLM terrorism” and “Democratic accomplices,” marking mainly female legislators of color, including Bush.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
She also often refuses to wear a mask in Congress and tells lies about the COVID-19 vaccines.
This week, a video of her rebuking a survivor of the Parkland shooting, who was a teenager at the time, and calling the shooting a “false flag” resurfaced. CNN also discovered social media posts and comments by Taylor Greene in 2018 and 2019 that indicated support for the death of prominent Democrats.
Several Democratic members of Congress asked that she be expelled from the House for her role in inciting the Capitol insurrection on January 6. Although the Republican Party leadership is facing pressure to punish Taylor Greene for her comments, they nominated her for the House Work and Education Committee this week.