Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) leaves the House of Representatives after a series of votes on Capitol Hill on June 14, 2024.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) addressed the heated exchanges she had on Capitol Hill in a recent interview.
Greene is one of the most outspoken Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives and has had tense exchanges with her colleagues. In a recent appearance on comedian Russell Brand’s show, he asked her if she had ever said anything and thought: “I really shouldn’t have said that, it was a little too intense.”
“Yes, of course,” she said. answered.
Greene mentioned a heated exchange during a House Oversight Committee hearing in May, when she and other lawmakers hurled personal insults at each other. At one point, Greene told Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) that her “fake eyelashes are ruining what you’re reading.”
This sparked outrage from Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.). Crockett later appeared to fire back at Greene by asking her a hypothetical question about a “male body, fair skinned and thin build.”
Greene told Brand that all the lawmakers were simply “attacking each other” during the hearing, noting that people only saw clips of that exchange and not the 45 minutes leading up to it.
“But no one saw what led to that tipping point,” he said in the episode that aired Wednesday. “And that’s usually the hard part, isn’t it? Understanding why they’re yelling at each other? What happened? Why did MTG just break down and say things like that to people?”
She suggested she only loses patience when she or former President Trump are personally attacked.
“It’s usually because they push me over and over again, and I hear them call Donald Trump ‘our orange messiah,’ or I hear them attack me personally, or they’re holding up my tweets or social media posts about X and they’re rephrasing my words and lying about what I said. And I have to sit there and accept it, accept it, accept it,” she said.
“Yes, at that point I lost my temper and I ran full speed up the hill and said things that I probably shouldn’t have said. But, you know, I’m human, I’m not free from mistakes,” she continued.
