Marjorie Taylor Greene Uses Declaration of Independence to Defend Violent Capitol Riot
Republicans have long been trying to thread the needle of defending the Jan. 6 rally to protest the 2020 election results while trying to wash their hands of any culpability for the violent riot at the Capitol that followed. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) isn’t splitting hairs. During an appearance on Steve Bannon’s Barroom podcast on Tuesday, Greene cited the Declaration of Independence to defend the actual insurrection, the one in which hundreds of Trump supporters broke into the Capitol, resulting in five deaths and dozens of injuries.
“Jan. 6 was just a riot,” Greene said, implying the violent attempt to overthrow American democracy paled in significance to the “lies of BlueAnon” and the media, which she said would do anything to cause her to be killed. Never mind the actual lies about the 2020 election results that led to the storming of the Capitol that put the lives of her colleagues in danger on Jan. 6.
“If you think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants,” Greene continued in defense of the riot. “There is a clear difference between Jan. 6 and the Marxist, Communist revolution, the Antifa, BLM, Democrat ground troops waged on the American people in 2020.”
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Greene’s comments come two days after Rolling Stone published an explosive report linking her and a handful of other Trump-supporting Republicans to the planning of the events of Jan. 6 that turned violent. Greene’s communication director wrote in an email to Rolling Stone that “Greene and her staff were focused on the Congressional election objection on the House floor and had nothing to do with planning of any protest.”
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