Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Kinzinger 'Traitor' For Serving On Select Committee
Georgia Republican also continues COVID disinformation
A nearly constant source of controversy and outrage on the right, Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) has branded her Republican colleague, Rep Adam Kinzinger of Illinois a “traitor” for agreeing to serve on the House select committee set up to investigate the violent insurrection on January 6.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her decision to appoint Kinzinger, a Republican with a long history of repudiating former president Donald Trump and his views, to serve on the panel alongside Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo).
Cheney and Kinzinger will be the only Republicans on the bipartisan committee after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) pulled all of his selections. McCarthy did so after Pelosi vetoed two of McCarthy's picks because they had participated in the effort to decertify Joe Biden's election on January 6 just before the violent insurrection itself got underway.
Cheney lost her post in Republican leadership earlier this year because she refused to go along with Donald Trump's “Big Lie,” the fictitious and baseless claim that somehow the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him due to massive Democratic fraud.
Pelosi formed the bipartisan select committee in the House to investigate the events of January 6 after Senate Republicans killed plans to create an independent bipartisan commission in the style of the 9/11 commission, to study the most violent insurrection on US soil since the Civil War.
On January 6, violent backers of Trump's stormed the Capitol with the intention of trying to overturn the legitimate and lawful certification of Joe Biden's election as president of the United States and install Trump for an illegal second term in the White House.
In explaining his decision to accept Pelosi's invitation to join the select committee, Kinzinger said, “Self-governance requires accountability and responsibility. My faith requires the same of me, truth is necessary for order, and that’s what I will do. Let me be clear, I’m a Republican dedicated to conservative values, but I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution—and while this is not the position I expected to be in or sought out, when duty calls, I will always answer.
“This moment requires a serious, clear-eyed, non-partisan approach. We are duty-bound to conduct a full investigation on the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814 and to make sure it can never happen again,” he added. “Today, I was asked by the Speaker to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th and I humbly accepted. I will work diligently to ensure we get to the truth and hold those responsible for the attack fully accountable.”
Within hours, however, Greene — known for generating controversy and outrage over such stances as believing that wildfires in California have been started by Jewish-owned lasers in outer space and comparing COVID vaccination to the Holocaust — posted a tweet against Kinzinger.
“You’re not serious, clear eyed, or nonpartisan,” she said. “Accepting a seat on a highly partisan witch hunt, assigned by an old Democrat woman who is filled with bitter hate and rage and failed to secure the Capitol, isn’t a call to duty, it means you’re a traitor.”
Fact checkers have already debunked claims that Pelosi had control of Capitol security that day.
That's not all Greene's been filling her Twitter account with.
She continues to spread an array of Republican disinformation, from continuing to advance Trump's “Big Lie,” to disparaging vaccines and masks in the fight against the COVID pandemic — and doing so in her typically overblown and apocalyptic terms.
“I’m bringing the fight to the communist cancel culture, masks & vax mandates, and investigating political targeting & abuse,” said just one such tweet posted just Monday. “As well as supporting free & fair elections and audits.While demanding accountability from Congress & roll calling votes. They’re destroying America.”
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