ROME, Ga. – The U.S. needs to ramp up its domestic petroleum production to break the hold of Russia’s energy dominance, said U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, in a wide-ranging speech to a crowd of supporters at the Coosa Valley Fairgrounds on Saturday.
Regarding the war in Ukraine, Greene blamed President Joe Biden for inaction by not sanctioning Russia during the build-up of troops on Ukraine’s border, removing sanctions from a Russian pipeline and continuing to buy Russian oil.
“Now Joe Biden is still having America buy oil from Russia,” Greene said. “So essentially Joe Biden is funding Vladimir Putin, the murderer and the thug of Russia. He’s funding war.”
The rally was billed as a celebration of the Second Amendment and all American freedoms, and Greene was the final speaker among elected officials, gun rights advocates and candidates running for office in Georgia. American flags were worn and waved by the vocal crowd of hundreds.
Greene said the resistance of Democrats to increase domestic energy production puts America last. Not sparing her own Republican party, Greene also criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for a call to assassinate Putin and said the party leadership doesn’t deliver when it comes to America-first principles: balancing the federal budget, supporting police, border security and protecting gun rights.