Nov 8, 2023
Marjorie Taylor Greene rages against newly elected Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson over his funding proposals to be ousting vote material after her Rashida Tlaib censure resolution failed epically. Jayar Jackson and Trae Crowder break it down on The Damage Report.
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Marjorie Taylor Green is not
happy with Speaker Johnson.
So she is one of two Republicans who
voted no on Johnson's Israel aid package.
And she doesn't fault him for
putting that aid on the floor.
But she expressed frustration with Johnson
for failing to pass her resolution,
censoring Representative Rashida Tlaib for
her criticism and protests of Israel.
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This sounds like it's a personal problem,
same as she's gonna mention
happened to Gates, more details.
So in this interview
with the Daily Caller,
Marjorie Taylor Green began with her
irritation that the Republican rejection
of her first attempt at censure of Talib.
She said, we had 20,
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few Republicans that voted with Democrats
to table my resolution because they
claimed they were protecting what
she did to leave freedom of speech.
Which is jaw dropping to me because I
wasn't silencing her freedom of speech.
[LAUGH] I wanted her censored for
her speech [LAUGH]
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Okay, bro, a little bit more,
Green went on to lay the blame
at the feet of Johnson.
Now, this is where he gets involved for
not whipping enough votes in
support of her resolution.
And she appeared to tease
another speakership battle here.
She says, well,
he didn't help whip any votes for it.
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He told people to vote their conscience,
must be a horrible thing to say.
So he was not supportive of it.
And, you know, in our conference, we had
Matt Gates and seven other Republicans
that declared red lines where
any speaker that passes a CR or
funds Ukraine war funding
should be ousted.
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She says, she continues from that point,
so my question is, we're about to have
Speaker Johnson pass the CR, and
he's talking about passing mega,
mega Ukraine funding, trying to pair it
with the border security, pretending that
the Biden administration is gonna
do anything to secure our borders.
And he's already funded another
foreign war, which is Israel.
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Where are the red lines,
do they still apply?
Or are the eight willing to admit
that it was really something personal
the entire time?
Damn battle lines have been drawn.
And by the way, Trey,
yo, she's kind of right.
Sorry to say it that way,
but she's kind of right,
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as crazy it is the things that they want
and the reasons they got rid of McCarthy.
Mike Johnson's gonna have to do some of
those same things which we've already
mentioned, but.
>> Right.
>> You can
then point out what's the difference then?
Sounds like you just didn't like Kevin
McCarthy, which, by the way, you can.
A lot of people.
>> Right.
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>> Don't like Kevin McCarthy [LAUGH]
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know,
I wouldn't look to them for
consistency or anything like that anyway.
It's not gonna make them seem like
less crazy to me if they end up being
hypocritical on this one particular thing,
you just add it onto the pile with them.
But it'll be something, though I think,
it's like I said, the party at
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large is being held hostage by this
tiny minority of its craziest members.
And they've made that bed
now they got to lay in it.
And I just don't think it's gonna
get any more comfortable for
them anytime soon because it's
just not in these people's nature.
So if it's not this,
it'll be something else before too long.
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I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but
I'm pretty confident in that so.
And again, it was Matt Gates, it was
one guy who was able to bring up this.
>> Right.
>> Vote to oust McCarthy, and
they're thinking about potentially
changing that because that madness did
make them look very good.
They're trying to see the number, they're
still debating whether I go to seven or
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eight or up to 100 people that
would have to be on board.
Something to make it a little bit
more secure and stable there,
which it's instable.
So how are they going to figure that out?
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