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, advocates 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.
WHITE HOUSE REBUKES «VIOLENT» RHETORIC
Later, the White House deputy spokesman, Andrew Bates, issued a statement picked up by the US press in which he lambasted Taylor Greene for his «violent» rhetoric regarding an episode that he called «carnage».
«It goes against our fundamental values as a country for a member of Congress to wish that the carnage of January 6 had been even worse and to boast of having succeeded in an armed insurrection against the U.S. Government,» he said.
Bates also remarked that Taylor Greene’s words are like «a slap in the face» to the Capitol Police officers, the Washington Metropolitan Police, the National Guard and all the families who lost loved ones as a result of the assault.
On that January 6, 2021, a mob of ultra-nationalist Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to halt the process of transferring power to Joe Biden, the winner of the presidential election held the previous November.
