Marjorie Taylor Greene’s speech on Saturday night before a group of white nationalists apparently caught her off guard. After the address, reporters asked her about why she was speaking to the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) in Orlando. Greene said she didn’t know who was in the group or the organizer, and she also doubled down denouncing the attacks against her as “identity politics” and an attempt to “cancel” her. For the record, the event was organized by a noted white nationalist, Nick Fuentes who marched in Charlottesville.
“I do not know Nick Fuentes. I never heard him speak. I’ve never seen a video. I don’t know what his views are so I’m not aligned with anything controversial,” she said.
By Monday, GOP leadership in Washington was denouncing white supremacists, but not Greene (or Rep. Paul Gosar who appeared via video) saying there’s no place in the Republican Party for “white supremacists or anti-Semitism.”
But the best reaction came from longtime GOP operative Haley Barbour of Mississippi.
“She’s lying. She can’t even admit where she was, who she was with. Why didn’t she go in there and call them out as racists? Speak the truth… You show up and everyone has sheets on, you know where you are.”
Haley Barbour Former RNC Chairman