White House: Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest Jan. 6 comments a "slap in the face" to law enforcement, victims' families - CBS News

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Washington — The White House is reacting sharply to comments made implicit the play by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and however the insurrection connected Jan. 6, 2021, mightiness person gone if she had so been its ringleader.

The Georgia Republican spoke Saturday astatine a meal hosted by the New York Young Republican Club and recounted however her critics person incorrectly labeled her an organizer of the insurrection that near 1 idiosyncratic changeable dormant and led to the deaths of 2 different constabulary officers.

"I privation to archer you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would person won. Not to mention, we would've been armed," she said Saturday, according to the New York Post. 

She besides criticized ongoing U.S. backing for the warfare successful Ukraine and called connected Republicans to backmost erstwhile President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

In comments shared archetypal with CBS News, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said 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. All leaders person a work to condemn these dangerous, abhorrent remarks and basal up for our Constitution and the regularisation of law."

While the White House has pledged to enactment with Republicans acceptable to instrumentality power of the House adjacent year, it hasn't shirked from sharply criticizing those that participated in, supported oregon support the 2021 insurrection oregon who proceed to accidental oregon bash things that undermine American democracy. It has been particularly speedy to respond to Trump and his caller meal with achromatic supremacists oregon his comments suggesting that the U.S. Constitution should beryllium terminated successful the aftermath of his 2020 nonaccomplishment to President Biden.

In a connection aboriginal Monday, Greene claimed her remark was "making amusive of Joe Biden and the Democrats, who person continuously made maine a governmental people since January 6th."

"The White House needs to larn however sarcasm works," she said.