Marjorie Taylor Greene’s political career could implode over this single tweet
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s incendiary rhetoric may finally be catching up with her, and one tweet she posted last year could now prevent her from seeking a second term in Congress.On Friday, Greene will testify under oath about her involvement in the Jan.
6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of a lawsuit challenging her eligibility to seek re-election under the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionists and rebels running for office.“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress…who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress…to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same,” reads Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.Greene was permanently banned from Twitter for repeatedly pushing Covid misinformation, but not before she implicated herself in Donald Trump‘s coup attempt.Ron Fein is the attorney who will question Greene on Friday, and told MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin:“As you know, I cannot give a sneak preview of the questions that we are going to ask a hostile witness, but even before we ask a single question, we know four things already,” Fein said. “One is that she called for Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden to be executed for treason.
She told her followers that they could not allow a peaceful transfer of power.”Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s definition of “woman” winds clock back 100 yearsThen he pointed to a specific tweet Greene posted the day before the attack, on January 5:“She worked with the planners of some of the events of Jan.
6th and then the day before the attack, she signaled to her followers a code word, meant to storm federal buildings and supposedly overthrow tyrants.
