https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-holocaust-outrage/index.html
In many ways, Greene's behavior -- after being stripped by a Democratic-led House of her committee assignments for past anti-Semitic statements and condoning violence against Democratic leaders -- is in the image of Trump.
She
seems to pick the most incendiary possible comment, designed to attract
outrage and attention, and that brings down a media storm -- which she
(and Trump) then turns on its head to suggest she is the one being
persecuted.
"The
media and Democrats and everyone feeding into it is allowing them to
hide the truth, which is the digusting (sic) anti-semitism within the
Democrat Party," Greene said in a tweet thread on Tuesday.
As
is often the case in such controversies, her statement, which was
really a new attack filled with rage, contained an apology that was not
an apology.
"Sorry
some of my words make people uncomfortable, but this is what the
American left is all about," Greene wrote. The Georgia lawmaker's
firebrand reputation has made her a celebrity in conservative media --
and one of her party's most prolific fundraisers since she arrived in
Washington in January.
The
next likely stage of the latest Greene saga could be expected to
feature pro-Trump media propagandists claiming that "mainstream"
journalists are willfully misinterpreting her remarks, powering new
disinformation on biased news networks that helped to convince millions
of Republicans that Trump's lies about a stolen election are true.
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