WASHINGTON – The day after the House voted to expel her from her two committees, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Attacked Democrats, the media and some Republicans who criticized her previous incendiary comments – but made it clear that she it would not be silenced.
At a press conference outside the Capitol on Friday, Greene said the vote on Thursday night to remove her from the House Budget Committee and the House Education and Work Committee was not fair to her constituents.
“Freedom of speech really matters, and yesterday, when Democrats and 11 of my Republican colleagues decided to remove me from my commissions – Education and Labor and Budget Committee – do you know what they did? In fact, they voiced my district, ”Greene told reporters.
“I’m fine with being kicked out of committees because it would be a waste of time,” said Greene, saying that her and her district’s conservative values would not be heard by her Democratic colleagues on the panels.
The committee’s work would be fruitless under the “tyrannically controlled government”, in which President Joe Biden is advancing some aspects of his political agenda through executive orders and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Is “leading Democrats to do what they want, “Greene said, adding,” They don’t care what Republicans have to say. “
The freshman lawmaker said she plans to use her free time talking to people across the country to get support from those who want to “put America first”, regardless of the party.
When asked by NBC News’ Garrett Haake what his role would be in the future, Greene said he would vote for conservative policies on issues such as abortion, gun rights, borders and the economy, “holding the Republican Party accountable and pushing it to the right. “
Greene also praised former President Donald Trump, saying that “the party is his” and “belongs to no one”. The decision by 11 Republicans to vote with Democrats to remove her from the committees on Thursday was a “big betrayal” that opened the door for Democrats to persecute other Republicans in the same way, which “could cost us a majority in 2022 “she said, adding that people were” furious “.
“So I hope my Republican colleagues really think about what they did,” said Greene.
Thursday’s vote came after Greene’s previous videos and comments emerged in which she expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, embraced calls for violence against leading Democrats and suggested that the school shootings in Sandy Hook and Parkland were staged. Democrats proposed taking action against Greene after Republican leaders decided not to punish her.
At the news conference, Green was asked about his observation in 2019 that Pelosi is guilty of treason, “a crime punishable by death”. Greene did not apologize for the comment, instead demanding that the CNN reporter who asked the question apologize for stories about Russian “collusion”, which Greene claimed to be false – a reference to the special attorney’s investigation into the Trump campaign and the Russian interference in 2016 election.
Asked if she was sorry for some of her fiery comments, Greene said, “I’m sorry to say all these things that are wrong and offensive, and I sincerely want to say that. And I’m happy to say that. I think it’s good to say, when we did something wrong. “
Greene, however, said he did not regret having confronted David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting outside the Capitol, which was recorded and posted online.
“David Hogg was an adult when I talked to him,” she said on Friday. “I’m not sorry to tell him that we shouldn’t” push for restrictive gun laws.
Greene has repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of mass shootings. Inside another video, she suggested that the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 may have been staged by gun control activists.
Asked whether he had previously liked a Facebook comment asking for Pelosi’s execution, Greene said the question was like when the press continually asked Trump to denounce white supremacy.
“Here’s the thing: when you want to continue telling the same story over and over, but you don’t want to tell the truth, that’s your problem. And this is how we end press conferences, ”she said before moving away from the podium.
