A former sergeant with the U.S. Capitol Police tore into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for posting a brand new symbol of herself arriving on the construction with an enormous gun.
“Discovering this outrageous and threatening is a real understatement,” wrote former U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who left the power on account of accidents and trauma sustained throughout the Jan. 6 assault.
He referred to as out her “delusional obsession with political violence.”
Greene, an in depth best friend of Area Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is a conspiracy theorist who final yr spoke at a white nationalist match. The brand new symbol ― a promo shot for her “MTG Battleground” podcast ― used to be shared through Patriot Takes, which screens right-wing media.
“She is not flirting with violence,” Gonell wrote as he retweeted the picture. “She is encouraging it…once more.”
Greene has now not handiest downplayed the violence on the Capitol on Jan. 6, however insisted that the attack would’ve been a success if she have been in fee.
“I wish to inform you one thing. If Steve Bannon and I had arranged that, we’d have gained,” she mentioned at a far-right match in December, in line with the Southern Poverty Legislation Middle. “To not point out, we’d’ve been armed.”
The brand new symbol ― appearing her arriving on the Capitol armed ― used to be roundly condemned on Twitter:
