Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) reportedly engaged in a shouting match with Reps. Jamie Raskin (D- Md) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo), two members of the special House committee investigating Jan. 6 as the House was voting on the criminal contempt resolution against Steve Bannon on Thursday.
According to CNN Greene approached Raskin and Cheney in the middle of the House floor and pressed Raskin about investigating the violence of Black Lives Matter protests.
“This is a joke,” Greene said in a raised voice, referring to the Jan. 6 investigation and the vote to hold Bannon in contempt. “Why don’t you go investigate something that matters to the American people?”
Cheney shot back that Greene was “a joke” and referred to a previous comment Greene made about Jewish space lasers starting a wildfire in California in 2018, according to CNN.
“I never said that!” Greene reportedly yelled back at Cheney. “You’re done. You’re a joke, Liz. Your party rejected you.”
After the confrontation Raskin told reporters that Greene was “screaming” at Cheney.
She “seemed to have some kind of ancient beef with the former chair of the House Republican Conference Liz Cheney over the Jewish space lasers thing or something like that. And she denied that she’d ever said that and then blamed it on the mainstream media.”
“What she said to me was, ‘When are you going to do your investigation of the violence surrounding Black Lives Matter?’ And I said, ‘Like with Kyle Rittenhouse who went and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters? I’m sure there will be an opportunity for us to get to that,'” Raskin added. “And then, you know, it degenerated from there as you can imagine.”
