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Marjorie Taylor Greene Lies to Crowd and Says 40% of Democrats Want Biden Impeached
Do Republicans even know what impeachment is for?
GOP standard-bearer Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is back in the news again. She appeared at a rally on Saturday in Plainfield, Connecticut with a message of conservatism, still heralding Trump as “her president.”
That message contained all of the predictable talking points about mask mandates and vaccines, falsehoods about defunding police, and all the criticism of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” proposals that anyone can stand.
Greene even started in on something that Trump-supporting conservatives have been urging across the country: Infiltrating local governments, school boards, churches, and other positions of authority to take them over and make them even more conservative.
But perhaps the most ridiculous part of Greene’s appearance came when she started talking impeachment for Biden. It is, of course, ludicrous on its face, since impeachment is reserved for “high crimes and misdemeanors” committed as president.
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As with most Republicans, however, Rep. Greene doesn’t seem to understand what that means, and instead mistakenly believes that impeachment is a mechanism by which you remove someone from office whose policies you just don’t like.
Normally, we would feel pity for someone as apparently misinformed (or possibly just dumb) as Marjorie Taylor Greene. But we just can’t bring ourselves to this time, because she knows the things she’s saying aren’t true.
How do we know that?
Well, she stood in front of the 3,00o-plus crowd at Quinebaug Citizens Alliance’s “America First” rally and told them that even 40 percent of Democrats wanted Joe Biden impeached.
That’s not just wrong, it’s laughably wrong. It’s reminiscent of when Donald Rumsfeld said during the build-up to the Iraq war that “we know where the weapons are.” No they didn’t, because there were no WMD. He knew he was lying, and that big lie set the tone for all Republicans after: Just say whatever you want, and ignore any attempts to correct you.
If you can stomach it, here’s a (thankfully brief) clip of MTG telling her fans a big fat lie, to thunderous cheers and applause:
You almost can’t blame the Republicans, with supporters who literally believe anything they say, for saying whatever comes to mind.
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