Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace called out Republican lawmakers for showing “more visible outrage” at Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump than Georgia’s freshman GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene promoting bizarre conspiracy theories .
Some pro-Trump Republicans in the House of Representatives have called for Cheney to be removed from her No. 3 leadership position as chairman of the House Republican Conference following her January 13 vote on impeachment. Meanwhile, few GOP lawmakers have voiced outrage following multiple reports of Greene’s past promotion of baseless conspiracy theories and support for violence against fellow lawmakers on social media.
“You have a situation right now where there is more visible outrage within the GOP about Liz Cheney, a member of [Republican] leadership votes every [former] president over – instead of some of these wild conspiracy theories being embraced by Marjorie Taylor Greene, ” Wallace noted during his show on Sunday.
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He suggested that Republicans should take action against Greene and asked if she should possibly be expelled from Congress or removed from committees.
“What are their options here?” Wallace asked panelist Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief USA Today. “I think it tells you a lot about where the Republican Party is now,” Page replied.
GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to meet with Greene about her inflammatory social media posts and bizarre claims. “These comments are deeply troubling and Leader McCarthy intends to discuss this with the Congressman,” Mark Bednar, a McCarthy spokesman, told Axios last week.
Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who joined nine other House Republicans to impeach Trump, said on Sunday that he would be in favor of removing Greene from committee duties, but he opposed putting her out of Congress altogether. .
“I would definitely vote her out of committee. In terms of eviction, I’m not sure because I’m kind of in the middle. I think a district has every right to post whoever they want,” Kinzinger told me. NBC News’ Meet the press. ‘But we have every right to take a stand and say,’ You don’t get a commission. ‘ And we certainly should. “
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Newsweek reached out to McCarthy’s press representatives for further comment, but they did not immediately respond. A Greene spokesman said Newsweek in an email that she was traveling and wouldn’t be able to comment immediately.
However, she tweeted on Sunday, “The radical Democratic crowd and their spokespersons in the Fake News Media are trying to take me out for refusing to apologize for our America First values.”
CNN first reported last week that Greene had repeatedly expressed support for the execution of prominent Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, via social media. Media Matters for America also reported that Greene suggested in a 2018 Facebook post that a California wildfire had been caused by a laser from space. The congressman also previously embraced baseless conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as several mass shootings in the US in recent years.