- Several House Republicans gave a standing ovation to MP Marjorie Taylor Greene during a Wednesday meeting.
- House Democrats will vote on Thursday to remove Greene, a conspiracy theorist, from his two committee assignments.
- House Republicans met to discuss the fate of Greene and Republican MP Liz Cheney.
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Several House Republicans applauded Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and avid conspiracy theorist, after addressing her colleagues during a caucus meeting on Wednesday night to discuss her imminent removal from two House committees. , Punchbowl News and another outlets reported.
Vice News reported that about half of the Republicans at the meeting stood up to applaud Greene.
House Republicans met to discuss Greene and Congresswoman Liz Cheney, a leading Republican under attack for voting for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump last month. House Democrats will hold a plenary vote on Thursday to remove Greene from his two committee assignments amid escalating backlash against his promotion of a series of conspiracy theories and his endorsement of political violence.
During the Wednesday night meeting, minority leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy supposedly explained why he would not remove Greene from any of the committees, and Greene addressed some of the strange statements she made.
Greene has long trafficked in conspiracy theories, including QAnon. The freshman congressman also promoted conspiracy theories claiming that the mass shootings at schools were “false flag” operations and orchestrated by advocates of arms law. And new reports also exposed their calls to execute Democratic politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Republicans also debated on Wednesday whether to remove Cheney from the leadership after she blamed Trump for the Capitol insurrection and called her actions the biggest “betrayal by an incumbent United States president and his oath to the constitution.”
Cheney said during the Wednesday meeting that he maintained his comments on Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 siege and his position on impeachment. Only 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump for inciting the riot.
The House leadership indicated that it wanted to leave the intra-party struggles for Greene and Cheney.
“I have been very clear that we need to resolve this as members tonight,” Minority Whip Steve Scalise told the politician on Wednesday. “I want the members to pass, express their complaints, but get over it tonight and then we have to move on together.”
—Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 3, 2021