Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., signed up with by fellow House Republicans, speaks throughout a press conference on the existing dispute in between Israel and the Hamas in Washington on Thursday, May 20, 2021.
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday condemned a member of his own celebration, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for her current remarks comparing Covid-associated precaution with the Holocaust.
“Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling,” McCarthy stated in a declaration.
“The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling,” he stated.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., likewise blasted Greene, calling her remarks “outrageous” and “reprehensible.”
McConnell’s representative mentioned on Twitter that the Senate leader had actually formerly knocked Greene’s “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party and our country.”
Over the weekend, Greene had actually compared the mask required on the flooring of the House chamber to the Holocaust. “We can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” Greene stated, according to NBC News.
Greene on Tuesday early morning tweeted, “Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star.”
She was reacting to a report from a regional Tennessee outlet on a choice by grocery store chain Food City to have actually completely immunized staff members show a logo design on their name badge.
Greene is a freshman legislator from Georgia who in February had actually been removed of her committee tasks as penalty for pressing a variety of extremist conspiracy theories. Reportedly amongst them was her claim in 2018 that wildfires had actually potentially been brought on by area lasers moneyed by the Rothschild household, the target of lots of antisemitic conspiracies.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with the media throughout a rundown on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2021.
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But the declaration Tuesday from McCarthy, who had actually formerly decreased to censure Greene, likewise attempted to cast blame on his Democratic associates for increasing antisemitism.
“At a time when the Jewish people face increased violence and threats, anti-Semitism is on the rise in the Democrat Party and is completely ignored by Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” McCarthy stated.
“Americans must stand together to defeat anti-Semitism and any attempt to diminish the history of the Holocaust,” he stated. “Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.”
In a bold declaration Tuesday, Greene protected her remarks and doubled down on her assertion that efforts to “shame” individuals who decline to follow Covid guidelines are “reminiscent of the great tyrants of history who did the same to those who would not comply.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Greene’s current remarks “sickening and reprehensible.”
“She should stop this vile language immediately,” Schumer stated.
— CNBC’s Jacob Pramuk and Christina Wilkie added to this report.
