{"id":1772724,"date":"2022-12-12T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772724"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:33:03","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-responds-to-outrage-over-january-6-remarks-learn-how-sarcasm-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-responds-to-outrage-over-january-6-remarks-learn-how-sarcasm-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene Responds To Outrage Over January 6 Remarks: \u2018Learn How Sarcasm Works\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\">28<\/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%2Fmarjorie-taylor-greene-responds-to-outrage-over-january-6-remarks-learn-how-sarcasm-works%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=1772724&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>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shot back at critics upset over her saying Capitol rioters would have been armed and \u201cwon\u201d if she and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon had planned it.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative firebrand released a statement Monday standing by her \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1602362817084022785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sarcastic joke<\/a>\u201d after the White House condemned Greene for the comments she made at a New York Young Republican Club event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House needs to learn how sarcasm works. My comments were making fun of Joe Biden and the Democrats, who have continuously made me a political target since January 6th,\u201d Greene said. \u201cEvery day, I receive violent threats against my life simply because Democrats &#038; the media have lied and smeared my character for the past 2 years. Including threats resulting in actual arrests with criminal charges &#038; threats against my home in an attempt to have me killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/07\/greene-decries-treatment-of-capitol-riot-defendants-urges-panel-to-tour-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decried the treatment<\/a> of January 6 defendants, made headlines for what she said at the event while talking about her first days as a congresswoman in the run-up to the riot.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The White House needs to learn how sarcasm works. My comments were making fun of Joe Biden and the Democrats, who have continuously made me a political target since January 6th.<\/p>\n<p>1\/5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nh9rfknEl2\">pic.twitter.com\/Nh9rfknEl2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@RepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1602362817084022785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come to Washington, I swear in on January 3, I get accused of giving insurrection tours which I thought was hilarious because I couldn\u2019t even find the bathroom in the Capitol. True story,\u201d she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/12\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greene-armed-insurrection-comments\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>. \u201cThen January 6 happens, and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing along with Steve Bannon here. And I gotta tell you something: If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would have been armed. Yeah. See, that\u2019s the whole joke isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThey say that whole thing was planned and I\u2019m like, \u2018Are you kidding me?\u2019 A bunch of conservatives, Second Amendment supporters went in the Capitol without guns and they think we organized that? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Capitol was breached on January 6, 2021, briefly interrupting Congress as its members met to certify President Joe Biden\u2019s presidential victory. There is evidence that some people in the crowd were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/politifact\/2022\/06\/15\/fact-check-were-firearms-other-weapons-capitol-jan-6\/7621149001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carrying weapons<\/a>, including firearms, and hundreds of people have been charged in connection to the riot.<\/p>\n<p>The White House issued a strong rebuke of Greene on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes against our fundamental values as a country for a Member of Congress to wish that the carnage of January 6th had been even worse, and to boast that she would have succeeded in an armed insurrection against the United States government,\u201d Deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/12\/greene-jan6-white-house-armed-insurrection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to The Washington Post<\/a>. \u201cThis violent rhetoric is a slap in the face to the Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police, the National Guard, and the families who lost loved ones as a result of the attack on the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll leaders have a responsibility to condemn these dangerous, abhorrent remarks and stand up for our Constitution and the rule of law,\u201d Bates also said.<\/p>\n<p>In her statement, Greene accused the Democrats of \u201ctrying to weaponize a sarcastic joke\u201d and vowed to continue standing up for herself.<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman quipped that Democrats only \u201csupport\u201d the Second Amendment \u201cwhen armed Antifa larpers want to defend perverts at drag queen story time or when leftist Hollywood celebs and politicians are protected by armed bodyguards.\u201d After a swipe about content moderation on Twitter, she concluded, \u201cI will never back down from my support of the Second Amendment. And I will never allow the White House, Democrats, or the media to continue to accuse me of something I had nothing to do with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shot back at critics upset over her saying Capitol rioters would have been armed and \u201cwon\u201d if she and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon had planned it. 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