In April 2022, when a reporter asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about January 6, she responded, "It was a riot, it was horrible, I hated it, I was shocked, it was a terrible experience," but she also said it happened only "one time" and was "over" so people had grown "sick and tired" of hearing about it. She said "everyone's being prosecuted that should be prosecuted" while also — contradictorily — proposing that the reporter "visit" people who "are rotting in jail pre-trial" (why would he visit them? for sympathy? or for a sympathetic interview?) and that he verify whether those prisoners included anyone from the political left (she was implying that, no, only conservatives are being unfairly jailed). That was a head-spinning dissertation.
There is a legal case against her to determine whether she is eligible for reelection. People who aid insurrections are ineligible. If she is placed legally in that category, she can't run for office again.
Right now, she's testifying in a court hearing in Atlanta.
Update: She ran, and she won.
Maybe she'll even join Trump's ticket and run on Trump's ticket. On Jan. 30, 2023, Will Leitch wrote on Medium:
"The day a theoretical second Trump administration would begin, January 20, 2025, Trump would be 78 1/2 years old, famously unhealthy, taking over the most stressful job on the planet. And Marjorie Taylor Greene would be his Vice President. There is a potential future, a very real potential future, where Marjorie Taylor Greene is the President of the United States. Pretending that’s not the case is an excellent route to allowing it to happen."
Update: She won, and she got a '60 Minutes' profile.
As a journalist w/ 20 years on the far right beat, I'm going to close-read @60minutes' MTG segment. To start: "MTG is as famous as they get." That's their justification: fame. AKA popularity. AKA the fundamental currency of fascism. 1/
— THE UNDERTOW, by Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) April 3, 2023
I was interviewed by @washingtonpost about MTG’s vile use of ‘pedophile’ to attack her enemies. The article is below. Today I’m giving the #history of this term as anti-LGBTQ and #antisemitic, and it’s link to #fascism, eugenics, and Nazis. https://t.co/amHSUjXal4
— Dr. Brandy Schillace (@bschillace) April 4, 2023
The real scandal in the awful Marjorie Taylor Greene interview is that Lesley Stahl didn't seem to grasp that "pedophile" is a longtime anti-LGBTQ hate trope. She called it "name-calling." This sanitizes an ugly bigoted smear that goes back many years:https://t.co/EXKQaFmam5
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 3, 2023
In the key exchange, Marjorie Taylor Greene casually conflates trans treatment with "sexualizing children."
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 3, 2023
Stahl allows this conflation to slide by unrebutted. This squandered a huge opportunity to explain the history of this smear to a large audience:https://t.co/EXKQaFmam5 pic.twitter.com/f2AcftxJwx
Here's a brief etymology of the right's "pedophile" smear. It dates back at least to the push to derail marriage equality a decade ago.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 3, 2023
It's now so mainstreamed in right wing discourse that DeSantis aide Christina Pushaw uses it with zero repercussions:https://t.co/EXKQaFmam5 pic.twitter.com/9YofUCd7zu
Some interesting comments from historian @ProfMSinha about the "pedophile" slur and its similarities to bigoted historical tropes that are now seen as socially heinous and unacceptable:https://t.co/EXKQaFmam5 pic.twitter.com/8f8EU7mP93
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 3, 2023
This is an interesting counterpoint from @speechboy71: The more national airtime MTG gets, the worse it is for Republicans. And I do agree that the part of the interview about MTG's Parkland conspiracy theorizing was terrible for her:https://t.co/sP4mal36bM pic.twitter.com/zyaJNi4eZH
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 4, 2023
I also want to highlight this from historian @bschillace, which explains the through line from use of the "pedophile" slur against marriage equality to its ugly use by MTG, which went unrebutted by Stahl:https://t.co/EXKQaFmam5 pic.twitter.com/EOhh6uQXVZ
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 4, 2023
Again, 60 Minutes already displayed that their editorial slant was against trans kids in a previous episode. https://t.co/mwjfX0XNR1
— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) April 4, 2023
I just… there are a lot of people in journalism right now that would benefit from having a trans colleague on staff they could quickly consult with and get full context on these every day stories and these outlets just flat out refuse to hire us.
— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) April 4, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene's inclusion of mechanisms for prohibiting medical instruction on gender-affirming care and deporting providers in her new anti-trans bill signals two extremely worrying turns in the war on trans people. pic.twitter.com/4ZTpLorug5
— jessica kant (@jessdkant) August 22, 2022
"Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency" Katelyn Polantz, CNN, Aug 19, 2023
She can run for office (and win) but she can't, however, do anything anywhere she likes. Example: "A Florida resort scheduled to host Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for what organizers claimed would be a small book signing abruptly canceled it Thursday after learning the gathering was actually meant to commemorate the third anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol." (HuffPost, Jan 5, 2024)
“He basically blamed me,” Greene replied. “He had no compassion for death threats on my children. He blamed me basically that if my son were to get killed, it would be my fault.” (HuffPost)
Update: Having pumped up MAGA, then resigned from Congress in November 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene now says MAGA is dead. She has other political plans for herself.
Read: ‘MAGA Is Dead’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump ‘Betrayed’ His Own Movement: The former lawmaker called out her one-time ally. Ed Mazza, HuffPost, Sep 25, 2026
See also: "What Will the January 6 Committee Deliver?". It's a 5-minute read on Medium.
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