Liz Cheney hit Kevin McCarthy and other House members GOP a guide to not punishing Marjorie Taylor Green for speaking out on a white nationalist event.
“The leaders of the GOP House: Have you lost your sense of decency?” Cheney wrote in Twitter On Sunday night, after Green posted a video of his speech on his official Twitter account in Congress.
“Marjorie Taylor Green is now using her official account in the US Congress to promote an anti-Semitic, white, pro-Hitler, pro-Putin conference. It’s a toxin in America’s bloodstream. It has to stop, “Cheney said.
Cheney, a Republican from Wyomingis one of several Republicans to criticize Green for speaking out at an event organized by a far-right activist, but Green defended her appearance and said she did not support white nationalism.
Green appeared as a surprise guest at the American Conference on Political Action in Orlando, an event hosted by Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist who was finally removed from YouTube for an anti-Semitic hate speech in 2020.
Liz Cheney Criticizes House Republican Leaders for Not Punishing Marjorie Taylor Green for Speaking at White Nationalist Event
Other Republicans have spoken out against her appearance.
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney criticized both Green and Republican Paul Gossar of Arizona for sending pre-recorded notes to the conference.
Moroni, Romney called them.
“Anyone who would sit down with white nationalists and speak at their conference certainly lacked a few intelligence points,” the senator told CNN on Sunday.
And Republican National Committee Chairman Rona McDaniel said that “white supremacy, neo-Nazism, hate speech and bigotry are disgusting and have no home in the Republican Party.”
Green has repeatedly clashed with other members of her party. The Democrat-controlled House stripped her of her duties on committees after she spread information from conspiracy theories.
Cheney is an outspoken critic of members of her party with whom she disagrees.
After speaking at the event, Green posed for a photo with Fuentes and right-wing expert Michelle Malkin, but when asked about her appearance at AFPAC and her relationship with Fuentes, Green denied knowing him.
“I don’t know Nick Fuentes,” Green told CBS on Saturday. “I have never heard him speak, I have never seen a video [of him].
“I don’t know what his views are, so I don’t agree with anything that is contradictory.”
She went on to explain that she appeared at Fuentes’ AFPAC event to talk about “God and Freedom” and to connect with his young followers because “this is a generation I am extremely concerned about.”
US MP Marjorie Taylor Green (center) has denied knowing white nationalist Nick Fuentes (right), although she posed with him and right-wing expert Michelle Malkin during his conference on America’s first political action in Orlando on Friday.
Green came out as a special guest at Fuentes’ AFPAC event to talk about “god and freedom.” The two were filmed together at Friday’s event
Green defended his appearance at AFPAC and denied any involvement with Fuentes. She is pictured speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday
Nick Fuentes (above) founded AFPAC in 2020 to compete with CPAC. Fuentes has been described as a supporter of the white race by the Anti-Defamation League and has been banned permanently by YouTube for making anti-Semitic remarks.
When a CBS reporter informed Green that Fuentes was a white nationalist, she said she did not support the opinion and reiterated that she knew nothing about Fuentes.
Fuentes, who has been described as a supporter of the anti-slander League, founded AFPAC in 2020 to compete with the popular Conservative Political Action Conference, which also held its annual conference on Saturday.
He gained disgrace by making many anti-Semitic comments, denying the Holocaust and opposing women’s right to vote.
On Twitter, Green said he was not responsible for Fuentes’ views, only his own.
“I will not play the game of guilt through association, in which you demand that every conservative justify everything ever said by someone with whom he has ever shared a room,” she said.
“I will also not deny the opportunity to speak to 1,200 young patriots from America First because of a few frivolous remarks from another speaker, even if I find these remarks unpleasant.”
Green defended her appearance at AFPAC and said she was not guilty of association for speaking at the Fuentes event.
The Republican Jewish Coalition condemned Green “most severely” for attending the event with “Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes.”
“It is appalling and outrageous that a member of Congress will share a platform with a man who actively spreads anti-Semitic bile, mocks the Holocaust and promotes dangerous anti-Israel conspiracy theories.”