Conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tried to query a witness throughout a listening to on so-called “left-wing organized violence” on Tuesday.
However she could have gotten greater than she was anticipating with the reply.
Greene started by mispronouncing the identify of the witness, Amy Spitalnick, a senior advisor on extremism at Human Rights First, a human rights group. Then, Greene recommended that individuals who present abortions are the true “white supremacists,” pausing mid-rant to assault Spitalnick.
“You suppose that is humorous, Miss Spitalnick? Is that this humorous to you?” she requested. “Is infants being murdered within the womb humorous to you, since you’re smirking and laughing at me proper now.”
Spitalnick fired again with a really severe response ― not about abortions, however the actual risk of white supremacist violence.
“What’s not humorous are the Black individuals and Hispanic individuals and Jewish individuals and Muslim individuals who have been murdered in synagogue, in church, in supermarkets, in mosque, by white supremacists,” she mentioned.
“Are you conscious that all-color persons are murdered?” Greene replied. “That could be a reality, that each single coloration individual has been murdered. That’s common. It’s not simply that folks of coloration are murdered, white persons are murdered too.”
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Greene additionally attacked trans individuals and claimed “trans terrorism” was behind mass shooters, and took offense on the time period “cisgender.”
Spitalnick later known as her dealings with Greene and others on the suitable “appalling.”
Greene, a detailed ally of Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), final yr spoke at a white nationalist occasion.
She has downplayed the specter of white supremacist violence.
“White supremacy shouldn’t be the primary goal,” she mentioned final yr.
Greene has additionally pushed conspiracy theories about mass shootings, and final yr implied that they may have been staged.