Conservative firebrand Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a shouting match with Democrat Jamie Raskin and ‘Never Trump’ Republican Liz Cheney in the middle of a House vote to hold former Trump aide Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.
Greene, presumably disgusted with the vote set up by the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot due to Bannon’s refusal to comply with a subpoena, remarked on the floor, “This is a joke.”
She then pressed Raskin (D-MD), “Why don’t you investigate something people actually care about?”
“You represent the American people,” he responded.
“You represent Congress,” Greene replied.
Cheney (R-WY) whose lone career goal is to harass President Trump and any of his supporters, then reportedly chimed in.
Reps. Jamie Raskin and Marjorie Taylor Greene exchanged harsh words on the House floor amid today’s vote to hold former Trump strategist Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.https://t.co/PE4AKHQiz8
— Axios (@axios) October 21, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene Tangles With Cheney
At this point, according to The Hill, Cheney couldn’t contain herself and responded to Marjorie Taylor Greene, firing back that the Georgia Republican was “a joke” and that she should be focusing on ‘Jewish space lasers.’
Greene denied the bizarre accusation, which stems from an old stream of consciousness social media post she made before entering Congress.
“I never said that! You’re done. You’re a joke, Liz. Your party rejected you!” Greene reportedly fired back.
Walking away from the ‘Orange Man Bad’ duo, Greene asked the question on everybody’s minds: “Why don’t you go investigate something that matters to the American people?”
Afghanistan is a disaster, the border is being overrun, the economy is in shambles, and the federal government is just shy of holding people down and forcing a needle in them to ‘combat COVID,’ and these House committee clowns are focused like a space laser on Bannon and Trump.
Nobody cares about Liz Cheney’s severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome and the J6 Committee Clowns, but American taxpayers do care about Nancy Pelosi’s taxpayer funded corrupt slush fund. pic.twitter.com/9KZ25qs6j6
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) October 20, 2021
Raskin And Cheney ARE a Joke
The fact that Raskin is even involved in committee activity investigating a riot due to opposition to election results is rich.
Raskin objected to the certification of Florida’s electoral votes in 2017. In fact, House Democrats tried objecting to the certification of electoral votes for Donald Trump that year on 11 separate occasions.
Lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin objected to Florida’s electoral votes in 2017. pic.twitter.com/FsLvJLvA8v
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) January 13, 2021
Such arguments against the legitimacy of the 2016 election led to marches, sometimes violent, in Washington, D.C. that year.
Never forget that. Democrats tried inciting an ‘insurrection’ after Hillary Clinton lost her bid to become President, long before the MENSA candidates in the media even knew what the word meant.
Cheney is, as Greene suggests, a well-documented joke, just thoroughly obsessed with former President Trump and his supporters.
Trump’s questioning of the 2020 election results has been described by Cheney as “the gravest violation of an oath of office by any president in American history,” while she insists the GOP “cannot embrace insurrection.”
Cheney reportedly slapped Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) on the hand during the riot.
“I smacked his hand away and told him, ‘Get away from me. You f***ing did this,'” she allegedly said.
Cheney told Jim Jordan “you f—ing did this” during Jan. 6 riot, book claims https://t.co/thRCYqBLtb pic.twitter.com/o6gstKathb
— The Hill (@thehill) July 15, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been involved in several verbal altercations aside from yesterday’s spat with Cheney and Raskin.
Last month, she got into a shouting match with Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) over abortion ‘rights.’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gets into a shouting match with Rep. Debbie Dingell pic.twitter.com/2ZyXOLEY6f
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 24, 2021
This past summer, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reportedly called on the Sergeant-at-Arms to make Congress a “safe, civil place” after Greene “aggressively” confronted her as she left the House chamber.
CNN reported, “Greene shouted at Ocasio-Cortez that she was failing to defend her ‘radical socialist beliefs by declining to publicly debate her.”
“You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and Antifa?”
“You don’t care about the American people,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?” https://t.co/Qij8o53bsi
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 13, 2021
The House voted to hold Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the investigation into the Capitol riot.
Cheney, of course, along with 8 other Republicans, joined Democrats in their vote.
The matter will now be sent to the Biden Justice Department.
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