The White House on Monday condemned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for her recent boast that if she had been responsible for orchestrating last year’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, people would have shown up armed and ” would have been won”
Greene’s remarks, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement, were “a slap in the face” to law enforcement agencies that risked their lives to protect members of Congress during the attack .
“It goes against our core values as a country for a congressman to wish the carnage of January 6th were worse and brag about pulling off an armed insurrection against the United States government,” Bates said.
He continued: “All leaders have a responsibility to condemn these dangerous and abhorrent remarks and uphold our Constitution and the rule of law.”
Greene made the incendiary comments on Saturday at an annual gala hosted by the New York Young Republican Club in Manhattan, where she joked about media reports that she was involved in planning the violent attack, in which more than 100 people were injured.
“I want to tell you something. If Steve Bannon and I had settled this, we would have won. Not to mention we would have been armed,” Greene told the crowd.
The rioters showed up armed, with stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and other implements branded as weapons.
After the White House condemned his comments, Greene released a lengthy statement Monday to defend himself.
“The White House needs to learn how sarcasm works. My comments poked fun at Joe Biden and the Democrats, who have continually made me a political target since January 6,” he said.
His statement also included several references to the Second Amendment and firearms.
“The only time Democrats ‘support’ 2A is when armed antifa larps want to defend perverts in drag queen history moment, or when Hollywood celebrities and leftist politicians are protected by armed bodyguards,” he said.
Greene, along with a handful of other far-right Republicans, called for sympathy for the rioters jailed on January 6 and said they were being held in exceptionally appalling conditions.
“I have never seen human suffering like I witnessed last night,” he tweeted after visiting rioters at a Washington correctional facility. “While some were introduced to us in seemingly beneficial programs, others were in a torturous block. I will never forget hearing their screams.”
He told HuffPost last month that he asked Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), a member of the House Republican leadership team, if he “supports the January 6 pre-trial investigation into the treatment of the defendants” and said he does idea.
Greene is expected to become a strong GOP figure next year in the GOP-led House. Her party leaders have vowed to restore her committee posts, which Democrats stripped last year because of her hateful and conspiratorial statements, including those that discussed school shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States 2001.
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