Marjorie Taylor Greene Ripped For 'Encouraging' Violence In 'Outrageous' Pic

Ed Mazza
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A former U.S. Capitol Police sergeant tore into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for posting a new image of herself arriving at the complex with a military-style gun.

“Finding this outrageous and dangerous is an understatement,” wrote former Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who left the police force after injuries and trauma sustained during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. He called out Greene’s “delusional obsession with political violence.”

Greene, a close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is a conspiracy theorist who last year spoke at a white nationalist event. The new image ― a promo shot for her “MTG Battleground” podcast ― was shared by Patriot Takes, which monitors right-wing media.

“She is no longer flirting with violence,” Gonell wrote as he retweeted the image. “She is encouraging it…again.”

Greene has downplayed the violence at the Capitol, and said the assault would’ve been successful if she had been in charge.

“I want to tell you something. If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won,” she said at a far-right event in December, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. “Not to mention, we would’ve been armed.”

The new image ― showing her arriving at the Capitol armed ― was roundly condemned on Twitter: