- Senator Tommy Tuberville said on Tuesday that he cannot comment on allegations about MP Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- “I didn’t even look at everything she did,” he said. “Traveling in this weather has been a little difficult to look at the news or whatever.”
- Greene backed down for his support of conspiracy theories and could be stripped of the committee’s duties.
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Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said on Tuesday that he could not comment on the charges against Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene because bad weather prevented him from reading the news.
“I didn’t even look at everything she did,” he told CNN producer Ted Barrett. “I would have to hold a statement about that. Traveling in this weather has been a little difficult to look at the news or whatever.”
Tuberville, who ousted former Democratic Senator Doug Jones last year, appeared to be referring to the snow Washington has picked up in recent days. The newly appointed senator, who was previously a college football coach, recently denied attending a meeting at the Trump International Hotel in Washington with members of then President Donald Trump’s inner circle to discuss how to reverse the results of the 2020 elections on 5 January, the day before the Capitol insurrection. But photos posted on social media appear to show him at the hotel that day.
Greene, a far-right freshman from Georgia, has been getting a strong reaction in recent weeks for embracing wild conspiracy theories and aggressively promoting former President Donald Trump’s lies about the election. But Greene has been attracting headlines for months, as reporters dug out their support for the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon and the series of racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic statements she made.
On Monday, Politico reported that House Democrats are preparing to remove Greene from his committee duties if Republicans do not act.
The report came after a video appeared showing Greene harassing a shooting survivor at Parkland School and claiming that the tragedy was a false flag operation. CNN also discovered Facebook posts where Greene expressed support for the assassination of key Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Left-wing Media Matters for America later found additional posts on social media where Greene expanded on an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, claiming that a space laser linked to Rothschild Inc. was responsible for the deadly forest fires in California in 2018.
Since then, some Republican lawmakers have tried to distance themselves and Greene’s party. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell spiked the congresswoman’s “crazy lies”, and Utah Senator Mitt Romney called her “crazy weed” and “crazy”.
Greene ignored the criticism, tweeting, “Too bad some Republican senators are obsessed with me, instead of preparing to defend President Trump from the radical left. Focus on ending the witch hunt. Do your job!”
Tuberville’s advisers did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.