Idaho’s Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has announced U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Northwest Georgia, will be the keynote speaker for its Lincoln Day Dinner in February, even after her remarks at a similar dinner in New York caused controversy.
Greene is in demand across the country to speak to Republican groups. At a dinner Saturday hosted by the New York Young Republican Club, she recounted how her critics have wrongly called her an organizer of the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump that left one person shot dead and led to the deaths of two other police officers.
“I want to tell you something. If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” she said Saturday, according to the New York Post.
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In response, White House spokesman Andrew Bates told CBS News it “goes against our fundamental values as a country for a member of Congress to wish that the carnage of Jan. 6 had been even worse, and to boast that she would have succeeded in an armed insurrection against the United States government. This violent rhetoric is a slap in the face to the Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police, the National Guard and the families who lost loved ones as a result of the attack on the Capitol. All leaders have a responsibility to condemn these dangerous, abhorrent remarks and stand up for our Constitution and the rule of law.”