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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told comedian and podcaster Russell brand She has said things in the past that were perhaps “too intense.”
During a conversation with Greene in the middle of the Republican National Convention, Brand asked the congresswoman if she had ever said something and thought, “I actually shouldn’t have said that, it was a little too intense,” and Greene admitted that she had.
“Yes, of course,” she said.
Greene referenced a specific incident during a House Oversight Committee hearing in May in which Greene and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (R-TX) traded personal insults with Greene referencing Crockett’s “false eyelashes” and Crockett accusing Greene of having a “platinum blonde, misshapen, masculine body.”
“Nobody saw the 45 minutes leading up to that. People just saw the clips, like those minutes where we say nasty things to each other, but nobody saw what led up to that tipping point,” Greene said of the hearing.
The controversial lawmaker has said plenty of things that have earned her criticism in the past and is known for getting into heated exchanges with critics. At this week’s Republican National Convention, Greene vented to a reporter, telling her that she and others in the media are the “cause” of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Has @RepMTG Have you ever said anything in politics that you regret or that was too intense?
“I am human, I am not free from mistakes.” image.twitter.com/8YZNTXAMGE
—Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) July 17, 2024
According to Greene, she feels she only “cracks” when pressed with personal insults and name-calling against the former president.
“Usually it’s because I’m being pushed over and over and over again and I’m hearing them call Donald Trump our orange messiah or I’m hearing them attack me personally or they’re holding up my tweets or social media posts about X and they’re rewording my words and lying about what I said and I have to sit there and accept it and accept it and accept it and, yeah, in those moments I’ve lost my temper and I’ve just run for the hill and said things maybe in a way that I shouldn’t have,” she said. “But, you know, I’m human, I’m not without my mistakes.”
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