The White House fired back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday after the Republican lawmaker said the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters would have been armed and succeeded in their attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power if she had organized it.
Speaking at the New York Young Republicans Club on Saturday, Greene appeared to hit back at accusations that she and Steve Bannon helped planned the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
“If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” Greene said. “See that’s the whole joke, isn’t it. They say that whole thing was planned and I’m like, are you kidding me? A bunch of conservatives, second amendment supporters, went in the Capitol without guns, and they think that we organized that?” Greene added.
The White House condemned Greene in a statement on Monday and called on congressional leaders to do the same.
“It goes against our fundamental values as a country for a Member of Congress to wish that the carnage of January 6th had been even worse, and to boast that she would have succeeded in an armed insurrection against the United States government,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.
“This violent rhetoric is a slap in the face to the Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police, the National Guard, and the families who lost loved ones as a result of the attack on the Capitol.”
Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential election. Some rioters targeted members of Congress and others were seen on video chanting “hang Mike Pence” after learning that then-Vice President Pence would not intervene to stop the certification of President Biden’s electoral victory.
