Marjorie Taylor-Greene Admits Role in Planning January 6th: 'We Aren't Satisfied with the 2020 Election'
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Just three days after a bombshell report in Rolling Stone citing multiple sources who that “dozens of planning meetings” occurred between members of Congress and White House staff, including Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. One source specifically remembered Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (“Marj” herein) attending these meetings.
So Marj has a problem, and denying the report was not an option, it was too detailed and far too specific. So Marj concocted a plan that involved an entirely new admission on friendly terrain, Newsmax, to a softball question. When asked about attending “perfectly legal meetings about the objections, and nothing to do with the riots,” Marj said yes, yes she did attend those meetings.
But one is forced to ask, if all of this is just so normal - as Marj claims - why did she hide her role, or at least keep it very quiet, until now, three days after being exposed in the Rolling Stone piece?
Perhaps because it doesn’t require “dozens” of meetings to plan an objection to the Electoral College votes? Let’s hear directly from Marj first and then we’ll run her through the dough maker.
Marj? Plans to object to Electoral College votes do not require a dozen meetings, nor was this election “contested” after December 15th.
Admittedly, it is understandable that losers may be unsatisfied with election losses. We learned that lesson after Hillary won the 2016 popular vote by 2.7 million people and then read about Russian interference and disinformation.
It may or may not matter, but of the seven representatives named above, three: Boebert, Marj, and Cawthorne, had never served a day in Congress and at the time of these “meetings” were not even sworn-in. They were no more part of congress than you and me. They were, however, extreme MAGA reps. Throw in Gosar, Gohmert, and Brooks, and the group looks more like cannon fodder than a serious planning committee.
Marj took time to note that her objections to the Electoral College votes were perfectly constitutional, “just as many Democrats have objected in the past.” In 2016, after the news of Russian interference had saturated the public, seven Democrats objected, all but two of them objected to a single specific state. On January 6th, 147 MAGA Republicans objected, most to every state in that they contested the election, period. We do not find the comparison compelling.
Now consider Marj’s, “Who, me?” quotes from above with a quote from just yesterday regarding the insurrection at the Capitol. From the Washington Post:
The racial-justice protest violence “was an attack on innocent American people, whereas January 6th was just a riot at the Capitol,” she said. “And if you think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants.”
Marj spoke about the insurrection in the same sentence as overthrowing tyrants during an interview about her participation in “innocent planning sessions” for objections made by House delegates? If getting the objections right was that important, why weren’t all 147 objectors meeting all along? Fear of prison? Just a guess.
We cannot let this go without also mentioning that one of her colleagues cited in the Rolling Stone report, Lauren Boebett, tweeted, Today is 1776 on the morning of January 6th. A war started in 1776 to overthrow a tyrannical king.
And again, she only addressed these “innocent planning sessions” after being outed by Rolling Stone. It seems like the burner just got turned up under Marj’s tush, no?
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