Gay Rep. calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a “traitor” for treating J6 insurrectionists like “heroes”

Out Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her over-the-top support of the people accused of participating, organizing, or leading the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

Speaking on the progressive MeidasTouch broadcast with host Ben Meiselas, Garcia called it “sickening” that anyone would suggest that the January 6 insurrection was a peaceful walk through the Capitol. Greene has repeatedly downplayed the attack on the Capitol that left five people dead and 114 police officers injured.

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Then Garcia, who shares several committee assignments with Greene, talked about some of his first interactions with Greene when he started his term in Congress earlier this year.

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“A lot of folks don’t know about this, when I first got to Congress as a freshman, which was just recently, Marjorie led a group, basically, of mostly Republicans, and two Democrats got invited, so I got sent on behalf of the committee on oversight to go visit all the January 6 insurrectionists that are actually in jail,” he said.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene was leading this group and the first thing she does was, when we walk in and meet them, is greets them and hugs them and prays with them and apologizes and is treating them like heroes,” Garcia said. “And I’m sitting there going, ‘This is disgusting, these people attacked our government, they tried to overthrow our government.’”

Meiselas expanded on what Garcia said, adding that the GOP sent a delegation to “the D.C. jail to chant ‘Let’s go Brandon’ and play frickin’ games with terrorists, with insurrectionists, and then they release a song, a musical that they play on Apple with the J6 choir which they play instead of the national anthem.”

“I mean, when you went from mayor to member of the House of Representatives, you must be looking at this and go, ‘How the hell is this happening in the United States of America?'” Meiselas asked. Garcia was the mayor of Long Beach, California from 2014 to 2022.

“One-hundred percent, it’s totally, it’s totally, it’s crazy,” Garcia responded. “She obviously has no business being in Congress and is completely, in my opinion, a traitor to the country.”

“Her antics are getting worse and worse and worse. You see she’s trying to impeach just about everybody, from the president to every single Cabinet secretary. She has no clue what she’s actually doing, has no respect amongst any of her colleagues, and is a really destructive force. But that’s the Republican party today,” Garcia added.