Otago Daily Times

McConnell blasts ‘loony’ Greene

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WASHINGTON: Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has denounced newly elected House member Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling the farRight Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and ‘‘loony lies’’ a ‘‘cancer for the Republican Party’’.

‘‘Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were prestaged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr’s airplane is not living in reality,’’ McConnell said yesterday.

‘‘This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.’’

His statement comes as House Democrats are mounting an effort to formally rebuke Greene, who has a history of making racist remarks, embracing conspiracy theories and endorsing violence directed at Democrats. It also puts pressure on House Republican leaders to discipline her. — AP

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