Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Dems ‘pedophiles,’ blasts Republicans on ‘60 Minutes’
Outspoken GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene doubled down on calling Democrats “pedophiles,” blasted institution Republicans and demanded that the US cease the move of support cash to Ukraine in a wide-ranging and fiery “60 Minutes” interview Sunday.
Taylor Greene – also referred to as MTG – made quite a few controversial feedback throughout her sitdown with veteran reporter Leslie Stahl – and was promptly panned by many throughout social media.
In one of many extra stunning moments, the Georgia lawmaker responded “I might positively say so” when Stahl pressed her on earlier feedback she has made about Democrats being “the get together of pedophiles.”
“They help grooming youngsters,” Taylor Greene, 48, said with out offering proof.
“Democrats help – even Joe Biden the president himself – help youngsters being sexualized and having transgender surgical procedures. Sexualizing youngsters is what pedophiles do to youngsters.”
The Republican additionally took a shot at her personal get together — knocking a variety of GOP lawmakers for not finishing up President Trump’s priorities when he was in workplace.
“They failed us,” Taylor Greene mentioned, particularly naming former home speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Senate Chief Mitch McConnell, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Mitt Romney.
When requested why not one of the blame falls on Trump, she mentioned, “Nicely the president doesn’t management the whole lot.”
She additionally reiterated her opposition to funding weapons and monetary support for Ukraine to assist Kyiv win its warfare towards Russia’s brutal invasion.
“What I’ve voted towards is funding a warfare in Ukraine,” she mentioned. “Your complete time I’ve been saying the US must be pushing for peace in Ukraine, not funding a proxy warfare with Russia.”
The interview carried out by Stahl was criticized by quite a few political observers.
“Stahl interviewed Greene as if she had been simply one other somebody uncommon member of Congress with some out-there concepts,” The Atlantic author Tom Nichols tweeted. “Confirmed MTG a few of her worst stuff, and MTG simply waved it away, and Stahl let all of it slide.”
Victor Shi, an activist and speaker, referred to as the interview “really horrible.”
“Don’t get me improper: I respect Leslie Stahl. However that interview she simply did with Marjorie Taylor Greene was really horrible,” Shi, who was a delegate for President Biden in 2020, tweeted. “Little to no pushback. She let MTG get away with lie after lie.”
And writer Molly Jong-Quick was additionally one among many progressives to chime in.
“Elevating a mini trumper as a result of that labored out so properly final time,” she tweeted.