Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) spoke about the heated exchange she had on Capitol Hill in a recent interview.
Greene is one of the House’s most outspoken Republicans and has had some tense exchanges with her colleagues. Comedian Russell Brand’s showHe asked her if she’d ever said anything and thought, “Actually, I shouldn’t have said that, that was a bit too intense.”
“Yes, of course,” she said. Responded.
Greene pointed to a heated exchange during a House Oversight Committee hearing in May in which she and other lawmakers hurled personal insults at each other, at one point telling Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) that “your fake eyelashes are ruining what you’re reading.”
The remarks drew the ire of Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), after which Crockett appeared to hit back at Greene with a hypothetical question about a “bleach blonde, beefy, manly body.”
Greene told Bland that all of the lawmakers were “attacking each other” during the hearing, noting that people only saw footage of that exchange, not the previous 45 minutes.
“But nobody knew what had led to that tipping point,” she said in the episode that aired Wednesday. “And that’s usually the hard part, right? Understanding why they were yelling at each other. What happened? Why did MTG suddenly break down and say these things to people?”
She suggested she only loses patience when she or former President Trump are personally attacked.
“Mostly because I’m being pushed and pushed and hearing them call Donald Trump ‘our orange savior’ and hearing them personally attack me and taking my tweets and social media posts about X and reframing my words and lying about what I said. And I have to sit there and put up with it and put up with it,” she said.
“And yes, there were moments where I lost my patience and I ran for the hills and in some ways I said things that I shouldn’t have said, but I’m human and I’m not infallible,” she continued.
