Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, known for her conspiratorial and ultra-right-wing positions, has defended herself from accusations of her alleged involvement in the January 2021 Capitol assault by assuring that if she had been behind that episode, it would have been armed.
In the framework of an event with young Republicans in New York, the representative for Georgia and loyal ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump has called the accusations that involve her in the organization of the assault a «joke», according to the news portal The Hill.
«I’ll tell you something, if Steve Bannon (former Trump adviser) and I had organized that (the assault on the Capitol), we would have won. Not to mention that it would have been armed,» said Taylor Greene, a staunch supporter of the conspiracy theory that the presidential election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden.
«They say it was all planned and I say, are you kidding me? A group of conservatives, supporters of the Second Amendment (which provides for the right to bear arms), walked into the Capitol without guns, and you think we staged that?» questioned Taylor Greene.
On January 6, 2021, a mob of ultra-nationalist supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington to try to stop the process of transferring power to Joe Biden, the winner of the presidential elections held the previous November.
