White House calls Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Jan 6 comments a ‘slap in the face’ of law enforcement - The Independent

The White House issued a furious effect to far-right Georgia GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying that her latest comments astir the January 6 Capitol riot were a “slap successful the face” of instrumentality enforcement and of the families of victims.

The effect comes aft far-right influencers, achromatic nationalists, neo-fascist activists, and extremist European figures mingled with Republican members of Congress and allies of Donald Trump astatine a black-tie lawsuit successful New York City, wherever Ms Greene suggested rioters “would’ve been armed” had she organised the attack.

At the group’s yearly gala successful Manhattan connected 10 December, the president of the New York Young Republicans Club declared “total war” connected the governmental left, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose reporters attended the gathering.

“We privation to transverse the Rubicon,” radical president Gavin Wax told a assemblage successful the Upper East Side, according to the SPLC’s Hatewatch. “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.”

Among the figures successful attendance were Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump Jr, on with members of achromatic nationalist website VDARE, “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobeic, and respective radical connected to right-wing propaganda cognition Project Veritas, according to Hatewatch and The New York Post.

In her closing remarks, Ms Greene, who was precocious re-elected to a 2nd word successful the House of Representatives, mocked allegations that she led tours of the US Capitol successful the days starring up to the attack, which was fuelled by baseless conspiracy theories and bogus claims that the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination was fraudulent.

“Next happening you know, I organized the full thing, on with Steve Bannon,” she said, according to video footage and reporting from the event.

“I volition archer you something: if Steve Bannon and I organized that, we would person won,” she said. “Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”

As a effect of the insurrection, 1 idiosyncratic was changeable dormant and the riot led to the deaths of 2 constabulary officers.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told CBS News that it “goes against our cardinal values arsenic a state for a Member of Congress to privation that the carnage of January 6th had been adjacent worse and to boast that she would person succeeded successful an equipped insurrection against the United States government”.

“This convulsive rhetoric is simply a slap successful the look to the Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police, the National Guard, and the families who mislaid loved ones arsenic a effect of the onslaught connected the Capitol,” helium added. “All leaders person a work to condemn these dangerous, abhorrent remarks and basal up for our Constitution and the regularisation of law.”

Speakers astatine the right-wing lawsuit reportedly praised antidemocratic and authoritarian ideology, successful beforehand of an assemblage that included far-right European enactment members from groups similar Alternative for Germany and the Austrian Freedom Party, among others.

Photos from the lawsuit shared connected societal media amusement Bannon posing for photographs with achromatic supremacist Peter Brimelow of VDARE.

Newly elected members of Congress astatine the lawsuit included Georgia’s Mike Collins, Florida’s Cory Mills and New York’s George Santos, according to Hatewatch and The Post.

In his closing remarks, Trump Jr relied connected acquainted right-wing targets including Hunter Biden and LGBT+ people; Ms Greene astatine 1 constituent referenced a spurious Project Veritas video connected LGBT+ education, claiming that it shows teachers “pass astir dildos, buttplugs and lube,” she said.

She besides appeared to lament the information that legislature Republicans are incapable to apprehension and prosecute their governmental opponents.

“We cannot apprehension people, we cannot prosecute people, and we cannot enactment radical successful jail,” she said. “That’s the occupation and the relation of the Department of Justice and the FBI, and they are corrupt, they service the Democrats’ agenda, and they volition not assistance america 1 azygous bit.”