The Republican Liz Cheney and Democrat Jamie Raskin, who leads the prosecution team from the House of Representatives, incited Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene during a meeting of the committee investigating congress storming January 6th.
At the meeting, which took place on Thursday, a decision was voted on a decision to prosecute Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, for showing contempt for Congress. The House of Representatives voted 229 to 202. Nine Republicans voted yes.
The background is that Bannon has refused to testify in the committee as investigates the congressional storm on January 6. Bannon was instructed by Trump not to run. He had previously, via his lawyer, announced that he would not answer any questions.
The congresswoman is shocked: – No longer serious
Black Lives Matter
Greene is very controversial, and has become referred to as the QAnon politician, as she has put forward conspiracy theories related to the loosely composed The QAnon network.
At the committee meeting, Greene, who believes the decision against Bannon is “wasted”, has turned to the Democrats’ chief prosecutor James Raskin to ask him why they have not investigated violence related to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
– Like Kyle Rittenhouse who killed two Black Lives Matter protesters? “I’m sure we’ll have the opportunity to come back to that,” Raskin said The Hill.
17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse is accused of killing two men during a demonstration against police violence in the USA.
Black Lives Matter supporters have described Rittenhouse as a supporter of white supremacy, while conservatives have described him as a patriot who exercised his right to bear arms during riots.
DISPUTED: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is highly controversial, and has been described as the QAnon politician. Photo: NTB / Olivier DOULIERY / AFP
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– You’re a joke
The plot about Rittenhouse stirred Greene’s mind, who answered the following:
– This is a joke. Why are you not investigating something people actually care about?
Trump-critical Republican Liz Cheney is said to have described Greene as “a joke”, and suggested that Green could rather use her energy on “Jewish space lasers”, referring to a conspiracy theory she previously used. should have spread on Facebook. The theory claims that space lasers controlled by a powerful Jewish family started the huge forest fires in California in 2018.
Greene denied spreading the conspiracy theory, and attacked Cheney:
– I never said that! You are finished. You’re a joke, she said.
Cheney ble and mai squeezed out of his role in the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives. Cheney was among those who got to feel Trump’s rage after voting with the Democrats to put Trump on trial.
IN MOUTHWORK: Republican Liz Cheney and Democrat Jamie Raskin on their way from a January 6 committee meeting on July 27. Photo: NTB / AP Photo / Jose Luis Magana
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Very controversial
In May, Greene faced massive criticism when she compared the injunction about wearing bandages inside Congress with what Jews were subjected to during the Holocaust. She is also controversial because of her ties to right-wing extremists and for supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Most recently in July, she became temporarily banned from Twitter a week after she wrote misleading information about the coronavirus on Twitter.
The decision to prosecute Bannon in Congress means that the case ends up in the hands of the prosecution, which will decide whether the charges against Bannon should be taken further in the court system as a criminal case, writes NTB. Attorney General Merrick Garland must make the final decision on whether to file a formal indictment.
It can result in imprisonment for up to one year or trigger a fine.
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