A former sergeant with the U.S. Capitol Police tore into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for posting a brand new picture of herself arriving on the constructing with an enormous gun.
“Discovering this outrageous and harmful is an understatement,” wrote former U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who left the pressure on account of accidents and trauma sustained through the Jan. 6 assault.
He referred to as out her “delusional obsession with political violence.”
Greene, a detailed ally of Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is a conspiracy theorist who final yr spoke at a white nationalist occasion. The brand new picture ― a promo shot for her “MTG Battleground” podcast ― was shared by Patriot Takes, which screens right-wing media.
“She is not flirting with violence,” Gonell wrote as he retweeted the picture. “She is encouraging it…once more.”
Greene has not solely downplayed the violence on the Capitol on Jan. 6, however insisted that the assault would’ve been profitable if she had been in cost.
“I need to inform you one thing. If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we’d have gained,” she mentioned at a far-right occasion in December, based on the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart. “To not point out, we’d’ve been armed.”
The brand new picture ― displaying her arriving on the Capitol armed ― was roundly condemned on Twitter: