Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) opened up about heated exchanges she’s had in Congress in a recent interview.
Greene is one of the most outspoken GOP lawmakers in the House and has had tense exchanges with her colleagues. In a recent appearance on comedian Russell Brand's show, he asked her whether she'd ever said anything and thought, "I shouldn't have said that actually, that was a bit too intense."
“Yeah, of course,” she responded.
She pointed to a heated exchange during a House Oversight Committee hearing in May, when she and other lawmakers were hurling personal insults at each other. At one point, Greene told Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) that her “fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”
This prompted outrage from Democrats, including from Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.). Later on, Crockett appeared to hit back at Greene by asking a hypothetical question about a “bleach-blonde, bad-built butch body.”
Greene told Brand that all the lawmakers were just “charging at each other” during the hearing, noting that people only saw clips of that exchange and not the 45 minutes leading up to that.
“But no one saw what led to that tipping point,” she said on the episode that aired Wednesday. “And that's usually the tough part, right, is understanding why are they yelling at each other? What happened? Why did MTG just break and say things like this to people?”
She suggested that she only loses her patience when she or former President Trump is personally attacked.
“It's usually because I'm pushed and pushed, and I'm listening to them call Donald Trump 'our orange messiah,' or I'm listening to them personally attack me or they're holding up my tweets or social media posts on X and they're reframing my words and lying about what I said. And I'm having to sit there and take it and take it and take it,” she said.
“And yes, and those moments I have lost my patience and just charged the hill and said things maybe in a way, I shouldn't have. But you know, I'm human, I'm not without mistakes,” she continued.
