Taylor Greene says Jan. 6 Capitol attack ‘would’ve been armed’ if she planned it - The Hill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday that the Jan. 6, 2021 riot astatine the U.S. Capitol “would’ve been armed” if she and erstwhile Trump advisor Steve Bannon had planned it.  

Speaking astatine a gala for the New York Young Republicans Club, the far-right lawmaker appeared to deed backmost astatine claims that she was someway progressive successful plotting the Capitol riot.

“Then Jan. 6 happened. And adjacent happening you know, I organized the full thing, on with Steve Bannon here. And I volition archer you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would person won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed,” Taylor Greene told the audience.

“See that’s the full joke, isn’t it. They accidental that full happening was planned and I’m like, are you kidding me? A clump of conservatives, 2nd amendment supporters, went successful the Capitol without guns, and they deliberation that we organized that?” Taylor Greene added, per footage shared online.

Greene, an outspoken state of erstwhile President Trump, has agelong espoused his mendacious claims of fraud during the 2020 statesmanlike election. She was questioned earlier this twelvemonth by the House prime committee investigating Jan. 6 implicit her relation successful efforts to halt the certification of President Biden’s win.

Many supporters of Trump who came to Washington connected Jan. 6 did bring weapons, and leaders of the Oath Keepers militia radical were recovered blameworthy past period for seditious conspiracy. Members of the radical allegedly stockpiled suitcases afloat of weapons astatine a Virginia edifice arsenic portion of its readying astir that day.

On the greeting of Jan. 6, Trump reportedly complained that immoderate of his equipped supporters were incapable to articulation the assemblage astatine his code astatine the Ellipse, and past called connected those aforesaid supporters to march to the Capitol, according to erstwhile White House adjutant Cassidy Hutchinson.

Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans Club, told the assemblage astatine Saturday’s gala that Republicans “want war” against the left. 

“We privation to transverse the Rubicon. We privation full war. We indispensable beryllium prepared to bash conflict successful each arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And successful the streets,” Wax said, arsenic reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

“This is the lone connection the near understands. The connection of axenic and unadulterated power,” Wax added.