‘I worship God!’ Greene melts down again in profane rant after attacking Fauci in Congress

04.06.2024 18:36

Raw Story

In a profane filled rant, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) unleashed a venomous screed in the halls of Congress attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, the retired immunologist who served as the public face of the federal government's battle against the COVID pandemic — just after she had attacked him face-to-face during a House committee hearing Monday.

Fauci retired at the end of 2022 after serving since 1984 as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but the far-right's conspiracy theories about COVID and Fauci's handling of the pandemic continue to this day.

Many of them were resurfaced during Greene's remarks Monday afternoon.

“The Democrats are responsible for the lockdowns, forced vaccinations, kids being forced to stay home, people committing suicide, and all of the horrors that this country lived through during COVID,” the Georgia GOP lawmaker said on-camera in little-noticed remarks she posted to social media (video below).

“Fauci belongs in prison. He should be tried for mass murder and crimes against humanity. That’s how I feel after that hearing. That’s how the American people feel.”

Both Democratic and Republican governors and local authorities directed Americans to stay home in the early days of the pandemic. Some directed out-of-state visitors to quarantine. Some closed schools and transitioned to virtual classrooms, and some instructed residents to stay home except for medical emergencies or trips to the supermarket.

So did then-President Trump on March 16, 2020:

The CDC recommends dozens of vaccinations for infants through adolescence, and again in adulthood, including for seniors. All 50 states have vaccination mandates for public school students.

Dr. Peter Hotez, considered a "vaccine specialist," in 2023 estimated 200,000 Americans died as a result of refusing the COVID vaccine.

In December of 2022, The Atlantic's Yasmin Tayag, citing studies, wrote, "by far the single group of adults most likely to be unvaccinated is Republicans: 37 percent of Republicans are still unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated, compared with 9 percent of Democrats. Fourteen of the 15 states with the lowest vaccination rates voted for Donald Trump in 2020. (The other is Georgia.)"

The Georgia Republican in her hallway remarks on Monday claimed "everything" she said in the hearing was "correct."

"It's how the American people feel, is what we know to be a fact," she said.

Greene said Fauci was not a doctor, as far as she was concerned.

"It's all the evidence has been proven true," she also claimed.

"We have [Democratic Congressman] Jamie Raskin in there accusing us of worshipping Trump, worshipping a convicted felon," Greene also said, using air quotes.

When told Trump is a convicted felon, Greene replied, "Well, yeah. So was George Floyd," referring to the unarmed Black man whose killing by a police officer set off massive nationwide protests.

"The media worships George Floyd. Democrats worship George Floyd, there were riots burning down the f---ing country over George Floyd and Raskin's in there say we worship him? Excuse me, let me correct you, and this is really important. I don't worship, I worship God, God, and Jesus is my Savior. I don't worship President Trump, and I'm really sick and tired of the b------t antics I have to deal with constantly from the Democrats."

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