Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on Jan. 6: Antifa and federal 'provocateurs'
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is using her increasingly influential voice and a new book to double down on the MAGA view that the Jan. 6 Capitol riots were influenced by anti-Trump anarchists and that those arrested and still in jail are political prisoners.
In a chapter about the event shared with Secrets, the lawmaker wrote, “Please let me remind you that these weren’t people convicted of violent crimes; they were pre-trial, convicted of nothing! In America, we are innocent until proven guilty, but these people were being held as though they’d already been convicted of violent crimes in a trial. I thought this kind of politicization and unusual cruelty only happened in places like Russia or China or some totalitarian regime. The January 6 defendants’ treatment was absolutely sickening!”
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Her book, MTG, which publisher Winning Team Publishing is releasing Nov. 21, presents her insider's view of the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, when hundreds of Trump supporters were charged with violently upsetting the constitutional process of electing Joe Biden president.
Greene, who was on the House floor when police ordered a lockdown, wrote that she thought the building was being attacked by left-leaning anarchists tied to the antifa and Black Lives Matter movements.
“As we began to access news of the riot, we immediately thought that a group like Antifa was behind it, as Antifa and BLM riots were the only violent ones we had ever seen,” she wrote.
“It has since come out from videos that not only Antifa and provocateurs but many federal agents and undercover agents were in the crowd. At the time, we had no idea that Trump supporters got wrapped up in the Capitol breach, only that they were there peacefully protesting,” she added.
Trump supporters were spotted in violent acts, though others passed through the Capitol with some order, and others were invited in by police. There was only one death that day, the fatal shooting of unarmed Ashli Babbitt by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.
Almost immediately when the lockdown order came, Greene said that the event became political.
“While the Democrats reacted in weakness and cowardice, our nation’s Republican members of Congress earned my respect by responding with courage. Many of the Democrats were simply going crazy! Some were outrageous. Most of the Republicans were calmer and more level-headed,” Greene said.
Making the case that the day’s protests were meant to set up Trump supporters, she noted that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) turned down earlier requests for added security during the changing of the guard ceremony but made sure her movie-making daughter was there to “capture the day’s events. What a great coincidence they just happened to be filming a documentary,” she wrote.
For the hundreds of others charged in or suspected in the breach, she said, “Most just walked in through open doors -- making one of the biggest mistakes of their lives!”
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Greene has been and continues to be an outspoken advocate for those accused of insurrection and trespassing who are still in jail. She has visited the Washington, D.C., jail holding some of the prisoners and is pleading to help get them released.
“The events of January 6 have been mischaracterized by the Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media, a circus made of the proceedings, and these people cruelly treated. It must stop! It will stop -- for we won’t rest until these people get equal justice under the law. They will not be forgotten. I will never forget,” she pledged.
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