Greene: I’d have ‘won’ 1/6 attack
Ga. Rep. spouts bizarre vents at GOP fete
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) entertained Republicans in Manhattan on Saturday night with a range of one-liners trolling the political left on hot-button topics.
“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” she said of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
She was one of several high-profile conservative firebrands, including Donald Trump Jr. and commentator Jack Posobiec, who bashed President Biden, progressives and more at the annual event hosted by the New York Young Republican Club.
Others in attendance included former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Bannon, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, and Rep.-elect George Santos of Nassau County.
Greene bragged about not supporting a “single penny” to help Ukraine battle Russia while suggesting money would be better spent on attacking drug cartels in Mexico.
“They care about a country called Ukraine whose borders are far away and most of you couldn’t find it on a map,” added Greene, who received an award from the club.
Her speech took a strange turn while she noted how “you can pick up a butt plug or a dildo at Target nowadays” while bashing transgender-friendly policies in classrooms.
Greene preached unity as she discussed what a GOP-controlled House might accomplish next year, while lamenting how many fellow Republicans have not supported her legislative ideas. These include a ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 18, which Greene likened to “genital mutilation.”
She also claimed that child pornography was allowed on Twitter until billionaire Elon Musk bought the social-media platform — and urged Republicans to back former President Donald Trump’s 2024 bid, despite calls from many in the party to nominate a different candidate following Republicans’ worse-than-expected performance in midterm elections.
But with the GOP taking over the House, Greene, who was stripped of committee assignments by Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi following a string of controversial remarks, said she was optimistic the party would work together to “defund” the FBI along with Democratic spending priorities.
“After the past two years of suffering under Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats and voting no solidly to Joe Biden and the Democrats communist agenda, I’m going to tell you I am fired up about 222 [seats] in the House,” she said.
Her appearance followed remarks by Trump Jr., who similarly bashed the “woke” left while expressing glee about how House Republicans might treat Hunter Biden next year.
With Musk releasing troves of data last week showing how Twitter executives decided to suppress a 2020 exclusive story by The Post about Hunter’s laptop, Trump Jr. said it was one more example of how supposed conspiracy theories can turn out to be true.
He told the audience they must similarly speak out no matter how politically incorrect or offensive right-wing talking points might be.
“We need people to be out there unafraid.”