Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) On Thursday acknowledged that while Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Apologized to conference colleagues this week about her controversial statements from the past, Greene said, “didn’t take back those claims ”or“ regret ”Bush.
During an interview which aired Thursday night on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
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Several outlets in recent days have exposed Greene’s previous comments, including statements pointing to support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, arguing for violence against Democratic leaders, arguing that mass shootings in schools were fabricated to support gun control laws and that the California wildfires were started by a space laser controlled by a network of companies, including the Rothschild family business.
Greene on Wednesday spoke to her housemates to apologize, she told her colleagues that she made a mistake by being curious about “Q” and that she told her kids she learned a lesson about what to post on social media.
Despite these comments, Bush said on Thursday that an apology had never been offered directly to her.
Bush claimed last month that Greene and her staff berated her in a hallway, and also pointed to a tweet at Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, in which Greene accused Bush of leading a mob calling for “the rape, murder and burning of the house” of the McCloskey family in St. Louis.
Bush told Noah on Thursday that Greene, “called me a terrorist, she said I was the leader of a terrorist mob … That I called for the murder of a few. ”
“She didn’t take it back, she didn’t regret it,” Bush continued. “That’s the kind of thing that is dangerous to our communities, and so it should be recalled.”
Bush announced late last month that for her safety she would be moving her office from Greene’s, adding that she would be casting her vote en route to former President Trump
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“Out of concern for the health of my staff, other members of Congress and their conference staff, I repeatedly called for her to put on a mask,” Bush said in a statement. Taylor Greene and her staff responded by calling me names, with an employee yelling, ‘Stop inciting violence with Black Lives Matter.’ ”
In the statement, Bush added, “In the context of Taylor Greene’s repeated statements of support for executing Democratic politicians before taking office, Taylor Greene’s renewed, repeated antagonization of the movement for black lives over the past month, which is directed at me personally , cause for serious concern. ”
“All of this led to my decision to move my office away from Taylor Greene’s for the safety of my team,” Bush added.
The House on Thursday voted to strip Greene of her commission assignmentsciting her endorsement of conspiracy theories, racist ideologies and violence against democratic politicians. Eleven Republicans crossed party lines to vote with the Democrats to remove Greene from its committees.