Election intruders 'should not be near public office'

Lina Portman1 week ago

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Marjorie Taylor Greene made a surprising comment on the House floor Wednesday, saying that “a person who abuses their position in government to interfere in democratic elections should not hold public office.”

The Georgia congresswoman, who voted to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election and bolstered Donald Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud, made the remark during a tirade against the USAID Administrator Samantha Power.

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“Samantha Power is a left-wing globalist activist who uses her government positions to impose the regime's views on the American people and the rest of the world,” Greene said in introducing an amendment to reduce Power's salary to $1.

She then attacked power over USAID's diversity programs, complaining that “diversity, equity and inclusion advisors” had been “installed” across the agency under her leadership while “DEI scorecards ” were used to “track staff compliance with the administration’s DEI standards.” guidelines. »

“These blatantly political scorecards demand ideological conformity and should have no place in the government workplace or anywhere else,” Greene said. In addition to seemingly unironically mocking election interference, the MAGA congresswoman said, “Instead of fulfilling her role as administrator, Samantha Power is focused on imposing a left-wing agenda on everyone.” of the U.S. government and its agents around the world. »

Several social media users were apparently surprised by Greene's call to keep election interference out of public office, alternately accusing her of hypocrisy and demonstrating that irony is dead.

The Republican, a peddler of conspiracy theories, was among the first Trump-supporting lawmakers to confirm her belief that the 2020 election was stolen through voter fraud.

She has since continued to defend Trump's actions during the election, saying in March that there was “nothing wrong” with what the former president said when he called the secretary of state. Georgia State's Brad Raffensperger to “find” the number of votes he needed to win the state. .

She also expressed at a public meeting in April her regrets over Biden's failure to become president in early 2021. “If I had the choice, we would have succeeded in our objection on January 6 and he wouldn't even be president ” Greene said. said.