Senator Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Said the QAnon conspiracy theory is “destroying the Republican Party from the inside” and called House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and newly elected Republican MP Marjorie Taylor Greene in an article by opinion on Saturday.
“Until last week, many party leaders and advisers thought they could preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon,” wrote Sasse in The Atlantic. “They cannot. The GOP must reject conspiracy theories or be consumed by them.”
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QAnon is a conspiracy theory centered on the groundless belief that President Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking network run by satanic and cannibalistic pedophiles.
MP Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells at journalists after firing the metal detector outside the doors of the House of Representatives on January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Sasse called Greene, from Georgia, “cuckoo by Cocoa Puffs” for supporting QAnon, although she rejected the move. He criticized fellow Republican McCarthy for not “repudiating his campaign”.
“She once said that ‘there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to end this global plot of Satan-worshiping pedophiles, and I think we have the president to do that,'” Sasse wrote. “McCarthy failed the leadership test and was left out.”
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The senator also criticized Greene’s plan to file impeachment articles against President-elect Joe Biden the day after he took office.
Sasse, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, drawing the president’s ire, did not say how he will vote for impeachment. The House voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection on January 6.
“If and when the House sends its impeachment article against Trump to the Senate, I will be sworn in at his trial and therefore what I can say in advance is limited,” wrote Sasse.
“But no matter what happens in that trial, the Republican Party faces a separate assessment. … We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be part of conspiracy theories, cape-new fantasies. , and the ruin that comes with them. “
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Emily DeCiccio and Edmund DeMarche of Fox News contributed to this report.