{"id":115344,"date":"2021-02-01T20:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115344"},"modified":"2021-02-01T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:27:08","slug":"top-republican-leader-slams-marjorie-taylor-greene-a-cancer-for-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-republican-leader-slams-marjorie-taylor-greene-a-cancer-for-the-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Republican Leader Slams Marjorie Taylor Greene: A \u2018Cancer For The Republican Party\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-republican-leader-slams-marjorie-taylor-greene-a-cancer-for-the-republican-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115344&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed Marjorie Taylor Greene in a statement on Monday evening as calls continue to grow across the political spectrum for Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to take action against Greene after number of her past inflammatory remarks, made over the course of several years, have recently resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, McConnell said that Greene&#8217;s embrace of &#8220;loony lies and conspiracy theories&#8221; were a &#8220;cancer for the Republican Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody who\u2019s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9\/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.\u2019s airplane is not living in reality,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cThis has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell did not mention Greene by name but it was clear who he was talking about. The Hill noted that &#8220;his rare, scathing remarks about a freshman GOP lawmaker from the other chamber suggests he recognizes the potential damage her violent rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories could inflict on congressional Republicans as they try to take back both the House and Senate in next year\u2019s midterms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greene responded on Twitter, writing: &#8220;The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. This is why we are losing our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The remarks from McConnell come after Greene has garnered national headlines for over a week after numerous incendiary remarks that she made over the past couple of years came to light in a series of media reports that have dripped out over a period of a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-move-to-force-conspiracy-theorist-marjorie-taylor-greene-off-her-committee-assignments-report\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Greene has been a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-to-introduce-bill-to-expel-marjorie-taylor-greene\">strong supporter<\/a>\u00a0of the debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, which is so fringe that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/alex-jones-qanon-rant-viral-infowars-1560394\">erupted<\/a>\u00a0at a supporter of it, saying, \u201call of it\u2019s lies.\u201d Greene has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fact-check-did-marjorie-taylor-greene-perpetuate-parkland-shooting-conspiracy-theory-1564992\">falsely<\/a>\u00a0claimed that major school mass shootings were \u201cfalse flag\u201d operations and that the Las Vegas massacre was part of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2mXo-fjfVdU&amp;feature=emb_title\">plot<\/a>\u00a0to get American gun owners to want to give up their firearms. Greene also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/26\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence\/index.html\">reportedly<\/a> showed support in some posts for the execution of Democrat politicians, which she has blamed on the \u201cteams of people\u201d who managed her social media pages in the past. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The pressure on Republican leaders to take some sort of action on Greene increased last week when more incendiary remarks from Greene were revealed, including her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html\">promotion<\/a>\u00a0of a conspiracy theory that Jewish space lasers were used to start wildfires in California in order to clear room for a high-speed railway.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Numerous right-wing political and religious organizations, many of which backed President Donald Trump, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pro-trump-religious-groups-begin-turning-up-heat-on-gop-to-take-action-on-marjorie-taylor-greene\">condemned<\/a> Greene in recent days and have pushed for her to be removed from her committee assignments.<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is set to meet with Greene this week to discuss the situation, which is the same response he took when dealing with a similar situation a couple of years ago with Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who was eventually removed from his committee assignments and replaced by Republican voters in his next primary election.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing news story, refresh the page for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed Marjorie Taylor Greene in a statement on Monday evening as calls continue to grow across the political spectrum for Republican leadership in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892424,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4659,3939,4653,3911,3944,4656],"class_list":["post-115344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-greene","tag-leader","tag-marjorie","tag-republican","tag-slams","tag-taylor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}