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Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing calls to be expelled from Congress after she spoke at a white nationalist conference on Friday night.
Greene spoke at the America First Political Action Committee‘s conference, an event organized by Nick Fuentes, a far-right activist who has been labeled a white supremacist by the Justice Department.
“I talked about God and Liberty,” Greene said. “I’m also not going to turn down the opportunity to speak to 1,200 young America First patriots because of a few off-color remarks by another speaker, even if I find those remarks unsavory.”
Democrats, and even some Republicans, are criticizing Greene’s appearance.
“In any other world, Greene speaking at a white supremacist conference where attendees have defended Vladimir Putin and praised Adolf Hitler would warrant expulsion from the caucus, to say nothing of her advocacy for violence and consistent anti-Semitism,” the Democratic National Committee said in a statement.
The Republican Jewish Coalition said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms” Taylor Greene’s participation in the AFPAC.
“It is appalling and outrageous that a member of Congress would share a platform with an individual who has actively spread antisemitic bile, mocked the Holocaust, and promoted dangerous anti-Israel conspiracy theories,” the RJC said in a statement.
“This has absolutely no place in the Republican Party.”
However, Taylor Greene refused to back down and tweeted that “I am not going to play the guilt by association game in which you demand every conservative should justify anything ever said by anyone they’ve ever shared a room with.”
“I’m not going to be drawn into that. I’m only responsible for what I say,” she wrote. “I’m also not going to turn down the opportunity to speak to 1,200 young America First patriots because of a few off-color remarks by another speaker, even if I find those remarks unsavory.”
Recently censured Arizona Republican congressman Paul Gosar also appeared via pre-recorded video.
At the AFPAC meeting, Fuentes said, “Now they’re going on about Vladimir Putin and Russia, and Vladimir Putin is Hitler – and they say that’s not a good thing.”
“Now they’re going on about Vladimir Putin and Russia and Vladimir Putin is Hitler and they say that’s not a good thing. (Smiles) I shouldn’t have said that. (Laughter)”pic.twitter.com/NsCUXbQzb4
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) February 26, 2022
“I shouldn’t have said that,” he said, and then burst into laughter, drawing approval from the audience.
Greene was stripped of her committee assignments in a bipartisan vote last year due to her long history of making controversial statements, including her past support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, her promotion of lies about school mass shootings, and her endorsement of social media posts that called for the execution of lawmakers.
She also had her personal Twitter account permanently banned last month after continuously spreading misinformation about COVID-19.
