Controversial Republican congresswoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene on Monday apologized for comparing House COVID safety protocols to the Holocaust, after her visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Monday.
She kicked off her press conference by reminding reporters that she is “very much a normal person.”
“I have made a mistake and it’s really bothered me for a couple of weeks now. So I definitely want to own it. This afternoon, I visited the Holocaust Museum. The Holocaust is—there’s nothing comparable,” Greene said. “It happened, you know, over 6 million Jewish people were murdered. More than that, there were not just Jewish people, Black people, Christians, children, people that the Nazis didn’t believe were good enough, perfect enough. The horrors of the Holocaust are something that some people don’t even believe happened, that some people deny, but there is no comparison to the Holocaust. There are words that I have said, remarks that I’ve made, that I know are offensive. And for that I want to apologize.”
Greene’s remarks is a reversal from last month where she doubled down on her comments comparing COVID-19 safety measures in the House to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
“You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” she said on the right-wing network Real America’s Voice. “And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Her apology also comes at a time when Republicans are considering censuring Rep. Illhan Omar (D-Minn) for appearing to equate the U.S. and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban.
Rep. Omar later clarified her comments, saying it was taken out of context and she “was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems.”
