Rep. Cori Bush Said She’s Moving Offices After Marjorie Taylor Greene “Berated” Her In Congress – BuzzFeed News
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Bush said the confrontation with Taylor Greene and her staff occurred on Jan. 13 while she was heading to the House chamber for a vote. Taylor Greene, she said, “came up from behind me, ranting loudly into her phone while not wearing a mask.”
It was a day after several House representatives said they had contracted the coronavirus after sheltering with Taylor Greene during the attack on the Capitol. A video from that day showed at least six Republican members of Congress, including Taylor Greene, turning down masks being offered to them in the room.
“Out of concern for the health of my staff, other members of Congress, and their congressional staff, I repeatedly called out to her to put on a mask,” Bush said. “Taylor Greene and her staff responded by berating me, with one staffer yelling, ‘Stop inciting violence with Black Lives Matter.'”
Bush also cited a tweet on Martin Luther King Jr. Day from Taylor Greene who quoted a statement from the Texas GOP chair falsely accusing Bush of having “led the mob that called for the rape, murder, and burning of the home” of a couple in St. Louis who pointed their guns at Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
Bush was at that protest, and the couple named her as the leader of what they called “an out-of-control mob” in a brief appearance at the Republican National Convention. (Photos show that the protesters were walking by their house and there is no indication that the couple were being targeted.)
Bush said the tweet singled her out as a target to Taylor Greene’s followers.
A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media. I’m moving my office away from hers for my team’s safety. I’ve called for the expulsion of members who incited the insurrection from Day 1. Bring H.Res 25 to a vote.
The office move was ordered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Taylor Greene responded in a tweet, calling Bush a liar and the leader of a “mob.”
The video shows someone call out, “Put on a mask,” as Taylor Greene records herself speaking. She then yells at the person, who repeats, “Put on a mask.”
Rep. @CoriBush is the leader of the St. Louis Black Lives Matter terrorist mob who trespassed into a gated neighborhood to threaten the lives of the McCloskey’s. She is lying to you. She berated me. Maybe Rep. Bush didn’t realize I was live on video, but I have the receipts. https://t.co/CJjnI3ZTjC
“More MAGA reinforcements are on the way,” she added.
Taylor Greene, a believer of the QAnon mass delusion who’s known for making racist comments, is among the newly elected Republican lawmakers who repeatedly denied that Donald Trump had lost the 2020 election, even as they embraced their own wins.
Taylor Greene has continued to lie about the election results after being sworn in to the House, and said prior to the inauguration that Trump would remain president. The day after the Capitol riots, she blamed the violence on “Antifa/BLM terrorism” and “Democrat accomplices,” tagging mostly women lawmakers of color, including Bush.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
This week, a video resurfaced of her berating a Parkland shooting survivor, who at the time was a teenager, and calling the shooting a “false flag.” CNN also unearthed social media posts and comments from Taylor Greene in 2018 and 2019 that indicated support for killing prominent Democrats.
Several Democratic members of Congress have called for her to be expelled from the House over her role in inciting the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. Although GOP leadership is facing pressure to punish Taylor Greene for her comments, they appointed her to the House Labor and Education Committee this week.
