Marjorie Taylor Greene testimony: Georgia rep grilled about Jan 6 and Proud Boys plan at ballot hearing
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Your support makes all the difference.Marjorie Taylor Greene today faced an administrative judge at a hearing that could see the Georgia Republican banned from public office because of her alleged support for the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol.
The congresswoman was questioned about the 2021 Capitol riot by lawyer Ron Fein, representing a group of voters who filed a challenge with the Georgia secretary of state’s office alleging that Ms Greene helped facilitate the attack that ultimately sought to upend Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.
They say that her behaviour violates a clause in the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment and makes her ineligible to run for reelection.
Among other things, the case against the congresswoman hinges on her repeated use of a “codeword” – specifically, repeated references to the year 1776 – which the lawyers say encouraged the rioters who descended on the Capitol.
For her part, Ms Greene is appealing a federal judge's ruling allowing a challenge to her eligibility to run for reelection to proceed and in the hour leading up to her hearing, the pro-Trump lawmaker took to Twitter to urge her fellow Republicans to “protect election integrity”.
Greene takes the stand
Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken the stand.
She is being questioned about her role as a congresswoman and what it means to her.
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Rep Greene is asked whether if someone broke the law to interfere with counting the electoral votes, would that make someone an enemy of the Constitution.
She says she doesn’t know. But she says hundreds broke law during the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
Mr Fein keeps pressing on a hypothetical question: If she had advanced knowledge that someone sought to unlawfully interfere with the counting of electoral votes, would she be obliged to do something to stop that?
Mr Bopp objects and the objection is sustained.
Ms Greene is asked about her use of social media, how she uses it, and who reads it.
She is then asked about a specific tweet about election fraud from 3 December 2020 in which she was looking for a senator to join her and Mo Brooks in objecting to the election certification.
There are a series of objections from Rep Greene’s lawyer, Mr Bopp.
The objections and disruptions have annoyed the judge.
“This is not theatre. This is not an argument before the Supreme Court. This is an evidentiary hearing.”
Another tweet is brought up in which Rep Greene tells her followers to come to Washington DC to protest the election results. She uses the hashtag #FightforTrump.
Ms Greene confirms that is what it says in the tweet.
“I was asking people to come for a peaceful march, but I was not asking them to actively engage in violence,” she says.
“There was a tremendous amount of evidence of voter fraud. I want to protect election integrity and people of my district and peoples votes.”
Rep Greene says that she was not asking them to actively engage in violence.
She was evasive when asked whether she wanted Congress to not certify Joe Biden as president, but said “yes” when asked if she believed that Mr Biden has not won the 2020 election.
Proceedings have been paused due to a technical issue.
Defiant Gaetz standing with Greene
Rep Greene’s close ally Matt Gaetz is showing his support on Twitter as he sits in court supporting his fellow far-right lawmaker.
Video: Greene says ‘not accurate’ she did not wish Biden win be certified
Court has resumed and Rep Greene is being asked about more tweets sent from her account.
Ms Greene tweeted out a story from The Epoch Times about how the January 6 protest would be “wild”.
She was asked if the word “peaceful” appeared in the tweet. She says that it does not.
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