Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) struggled Sunday to shrug off responsibility for appointing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to the House Homeland Security Committee, even as he questioned whether the Sept. 11 terrorist attack at the Pentagon even take place.
“She bent over 9/11. she bent over a plane hit the Pentagon,” ABC’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz told McCaul. “She later apologized for it, but she said it in 2018. Should she be on that committee? You were on that committee.
“I chaired the committee,” McCaul replied. “You know, these conspiracy theories that people don’t agree with, I don’t agree with them. You have to debunk it. This was the most serious violation; 9/11 was no joke. It was made by Al Qaeda. There is no doubt in my mind.”
But the deputy insisted that Greene “has matured … I think he realizes that he doesn’t know everything and he wants to learn and become, I think, more of a team player.”
“It’s up to the older members to try to raise her and try to educate her that these theories she has are incorrect,” she added.
“Would you rather see another choice?” Raddatz wondered.
McCaul replied, “I am not the chairman of this committee and I am not the speaker.”
New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was forced to make some key concessions to right-wing GOP extremists in Congress to win the speakership. These included, to Greene’s credit, key committee posts that many critics consider completely inappropriate. She was also nominated to serve on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, although she still baselessly insisted that the 2020 election was rigged.
Democrats stripped Greene of her committee posts in 2021 for her past racist, anti-Semitic and violent remarks, including her claim to be armed and to have “won” the January 6 riot.
CNN commentator SE Cupp on Saturday called Greene’s Homeland Security Committee post “incredibly alarming.” Regarding lawmakers’ doubts about 9/11, Cupp said, “I don’t know where” Greene was on 9/11; “I was in New York City — running.”
Cupp, in particular, called it “appalling” that a “negative, conspiracy-theorizing, lying, seditious” person would be making national security decisions on the committee.
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