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GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy Promises to Have a ‘Conversation’ with Marjorie Taylor-Greene Over Support for Grave Threats

House GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy promised to have a “conversation” with his new flamethrower and all-around sick conspiracy theorist Majorie Taylor-Greene, who is very quickly becoming a massive problem for the House GOP caucus.

As we already reported, news burst forth yesterday regarding Taylor-Greene’s support for posts calling on MAGA-types to gravely threaten the lives of Democratic leaders. Today, we’ve seen video emerge of Taylor-Greene accosting David Hogue just weeks after the Parkland shooting, practically attacking Hogue on a sidewalk. In the hours after the video came out, new evidence emerged regarding Taylor-Greene calling Hogue “Little Hitler” and a “crisis actor,” because Parkland was a “false flag.”

In response to this, McCarthy pledges to talk to Taylor-Greene. From Salon:

“These comments are deeply disturbing and Leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them,” spokesman Mark Bednar told CNN.

“A conversation”?

She needs to be expelled and a fast-growing movement on Twitter is calling on McCarthy and other GOP members to support expelling Taylor-Greene.

But McCarthy knows he has a much larger problem. Taylor-Greene represents a huge portion of the “new GOP” vote. The angry MAGA head that believes the conspiracy theories, including that Donald Trump won the election and had it stolen from him. If McCarthy supports removing Marjorie Taylor-Greene, McCarthy will earn the wrath of those voters, the voters who most support Trump. In other words, simply removing Taylor-Greene would likely cost McCarthy both the MAGA head vote and Trump’s support.

Thus it is “the conversation.” Meanwhile, the news continues to get worse:

We certainly do not want Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress. She remains a threat wherever she goes. But McCarthy and the GOP have earned having to deal with her and all the fallout surrounding her. Trump already voiced his support for Taylor-Greene shortly after the election. This is the new GOP and Kevin McCarthy finds himself the head of these people, he is in an impossible situation because the GOP tried to have it all. They tried to appease Trump while also trying to remain “respectable.”

But everything Trump touches dies and that is exactly why McCarthy has no better option than to say he’s going to get right on it and have a conversation with Marjorie Taylor-Green.

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Jason
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