Election 2020

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Political Career Could Be Over — All Because of This One Interview

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene may have inadvertently destroyed her career and it’s all thanks to an interview she gave last year, Queerty reports.

Greene is scheduled to testify under oath Friday regarding her involvement in the January 6th 2021 attack on the Capitol as part of a lawsuit that challenges her eligibility to seek reelection since the Constitution bans insurrectionists and rebels from running for office.

“No person shall be a Senator or a Representative…who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress…to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same,” according to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, holds up a “Stop the Steal” mask while speaking with fellow first-term Republican members of Congress on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Jan. 4, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Attorney Rob Fein will be grilling her Friday and he told MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin:

“As you know, I cannot give a sneak preview of the questions that we are going to ask a hostile witness, but even before we ask a single question, we know four things already,” Fein said. “One, is that she called for Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden to be executed for treason. She told her followers that they could not allow a peaceful transfer of power.”

Fein called attention to an interview she gave on Newsmax the day before the attack, January 5.

“She worked with the planners of some of the events of Jan. 6th and then the day before the attack, she signaled to her followers a code word, meant to storm federal buildings and supposedly overthrow tyrants. So we are going to ask her all of this and more,” he said.

In the interview, Greene directly mentions the attempt to prevent the Electoral College’s certification of the 2020 election as Republicans’ “1776 moment.” She clearly says “This is our 1776 moment.”

The complaint against Greene alleges:

“‘1776′” was used as a codeword for violence in the run-up to January 6. For instance, Ali Alexander, a violent extremist who listed representative Green as a speaker at his January 6 event, and referred to Greene as a ‘friend,’ replied to a tweet by Greene on December 30, 2020 promising that ‘1776 is ‘always’ an option’ if objections to certification were blocked. The responses indicate it was understood as a call to storm the Capitol.”

“Alexander increasingly used references to ‘1776’ between December 30 and January 6 as a call for violence if Trump was not installed as president for another four years,” the complaint explains. “By this time, it was well-known that events Alexander planned and promoted developed into violence. Similarily, Enrique Tarrio, until recently the leader of the ‘Proud Boys,’ had on hand a detailed plan for the far-right extremist group to distract police, swarm federal buildings, and obstruct their functioning. The title of the document describing their plan was ‘1776 Returns.'”

The complaint also notes:

“Greene’s references to ‘1776,’  made two days after she took the oath to uphold and protect the Constitution, had a specific meaning to her intended audience, when taken in the context of her well-known history of advocating political violence, the widespread use of ‘1776’ by violent extremists as a codeword for violence and for storming government buildings, and the widespread reports of planned violence on the Capitol. Specifically, her remarks had the intent and effect of signaling to her supporters that she was calling not for peaceful protest, but for violent resistance, to a peaceful transfer of power to the president-elect, in defiance of the Constitution.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Terrified of the Media Watching Her Testify Under Oath

But here’s what’s going to be really fun: The judge in the lawsuit is allowing the press to broadcast Friday’s proceedings live, and Greene is not happy.

“They’re going to allow the press in the courtroom. They’re going to allow the whole thing to be videoed live. … You know what that’s going to look like. The Democrats and the nasty mainstream media … are going to be able to twist and turn and clip out any little piece they want,” she said Tuesday on The Jenna Ellis Show. Ellis is Donald Trump’s former election attorney.

This is what Greene deserves. Hasn’t she been twisting the truth to serve her own needs? She’s continually been a harbinger of crackpot conspiracy theories and spread harmful misinformation. By obviously taking part in the insurrection she did real damage to the country. So if she gets taken down by a stupid interview she gave, it’s her own doing.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer person.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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