Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes out at “vaping groping” Lauren Boebert

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at her former fellow Freedom Caucus member Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), calling her out for groping a man she was dating in a public theater.

Judging by her posts on X, Greene was not in a very good mood yesterday when her half-baked resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) failed as 23 Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting the measure.

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“Republicans voting lock-step with a seditionist in order to further transphobia is literally the least surprising thing that’s happened this year.”

Far-right Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who is also part of the House Freedom Caucus, was among the 23 Republicans who voted against Greene’s resolution. He explained in a statement why he rejected it, including Greene’s “legally and factually unverified claims” that Tlaib was leading an insurrection. The Freedom Caucus is a group of far-right members of Congress who, among other things, generally oppose freedom for LGBTQ+ people.

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Greene, who was kicked out of the Freedom Caucus this past July due to her attacks on other Freedom Caucus members, responded to Roy by insulting the Freedom Caucus itself, calling out members Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) and Boebert.

“You voted to kick me out of the freedom caucus, but keep CNN wannabe Ken Buck and vaping groping Lauren Boebert and you voted with the Democrats to protect Terrorist Tlaib,” Greene wrote. “You hate Trump, certified Biden’s election, and could care less about J6 defendants being persecuted.”

You voted to kick me out of the freedom caucus, but keep CNN wannabe Ken Buck and vaping groping Lauren Boebert and you voted with the Democrats to protect Terrorist Tlaib.

You hate Trump, certified Biden’s election, and could care less about J6 defendants being persecuted. https://t.co/OIgUvndXek

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 2, 2023

Her insults about Boebert – “vaping groping” – refer to how Boebert was kicked out of a showing of Beetlejuice the musical in Denver this past September after she allegedly vaped near a pregnant woman and continued to vape even after she was asked to stop, among other things. Boebert was also caught on security cameras rubbing her date’s genitals as he touched her breasts in the theater where children were present. Boebert explained her behavior by saying she’s “eccentric.”

This is far from the first time that Greene and Boebert – two of the most anti-LGBTQ+ members of Congress – have publicly clashed. In June, Greene called Boebert a “little b**ch” on the House floor during an argument after each of them introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.

“I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a little b**ch to me,” Greene said, according to a witness. “And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them.”

Boebert replied, “Ok, Marjorie, we’re through,” to which Greene responded, “We were never together.”

In January, the two extremists – both of whom have said that trans women shouldn’t be allowed in the women’s room because they’d be a danger to cis women – allegedly got in a fight in the women’s room in Congress. Greene supported Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) bid to be speaker while Boebert opposed it.

According to one source, Greene was exiting a stall when she confronted Boebert about the latter’s plan to thwart McCarthy’s election as speaker. Greene allegedly accused Boebert of taking money from McCarthy for her campaign but not showing loyalty to him now.

“You were OK taking millions of dollars from McCarthy but you refuse to vote for him for speaker, Lauren?” she allegedly asked, according to one source.

“Greene questioned Boebert’s loyalty to McCarthy, and after a few words were exchanged, Boebert stormed out,” another source said.

“That’s when Lauren said, ‘Don’t be ugly,’” the source explained, before Boebert “ran out like a little schoolgirl.”

And last year Boebert and Greene nearly came to blows at a meeting of the far-right Freedom Caucus over Greene’s public appearance with prominent white supremacist Nick Fuentes. The confrontation got heated, and one witness later said that they thought Greene and Boebert were going to get physically violent until another Freedom Caucus member “stepped in to de-escalate.”

Several months later, Boebert mocked Greene to the press.

“I have been asked to explain MTG’s beliefs on Jewish space lasers, on why she showed up to a white supremacist conference… I’m just not going to go there,” Boebert said. “She wants to say all these things and seem unhinged on Twitter, so be it.”

Greene’s resolution came in response to Tlaib’s statements on the Israel/Hamas war. Greene accused Tlaib, who is Palestinian-American, of antisemitism.

Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper called out Greene for introducing the resolution despite her own antisemitic and Holocaust-trivializing past statements.

“This is the same Marjorie Taylor Greene who has pushed the ‘great replacement theory’ in videos, the deranged notion that rich Jews are trying to replace white Americans and westerners with Blacks and Brown Muslims, not to mention of course her Jewish space laser conspiracy that a consortium, including yes wealthy Jews were using lasers on satellites to start forest fires,” he said.

“When you read Greene’s resolution,” he said, “you realize it is A) written by someone who seems to have learned about the Arab/Israeli conflict maybe 10 minutes before, who maybe didn’t have access to Wikipedia, and B) while there are plenty of valid criticisms of Congresswoman Tlaib, this resolution twists a bunch of things she said beyond recognition.”