Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Alabama crowd they should confront Biden's 'police state' door-to-door vaccine promoters with GUNS
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., suggested in newly released video that southerners might greet door-to-door vaccine promoters with guns in their hand.
'I hear Alabama might be one of the best unvaccinated states in the nation,' Greene said at a July 23 event held by the Alabama Federation of Republican Women. The event was closed to press, but a recording was obtained by radio host David Pakman.
'You lovely people in Alabama might get a knock on your door,' she said. 'Joe Biden wants to come talk to you guys he's going to be sending one of his police state friends to knock on your door.'
'Yeah, well what they don't know is in the South we all love our Second Amendment rights,' the freshman congresswoman said, to raucous applause, 'and we're not real big on strangers showing up on our front door, are we? They might not like the welcome they get.'
A viewer of mine secretly recorded this video of @mtgreenee hinting at using guns to shoot door-to-door vaccinators at an event in Alabama recently pic.twitter.com/cjmUJ8UWI9
— David Pakman (@dpakman) August 3, 2021
A viewer of mine secretly recorded this video of @mtgreenee hinting at using guns to shoot door-to-door vaccinators at an event in Alabama recently pic.twitter.com/cjmUJ8UWI9
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, pictured above on July 23 speaking in Alabama, said that door-to-door vaccine promoters 'might not like the welcome they get' from Second Amendment lovers in the South
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, above, has apologized for comparing vaccine passports to yellow stars worn by Jews during the Holocaust
President Biden has called for a door-to-door campaign to spread information and about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, amid criticisms from the GOP.
'Now we need to go to community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oftentimes, door-to-door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people' who need to be vaccinated, Biden said in early July.
Grassroots vaccination efforts have been in place since April, when supplies outpaced demand.
Alabama and Mississippi are nearly neck and neck for least vaccinated populations, with 34.6 and 34.8 percent fully vaccinated respectively.
But vaccination rates have more than doubled in the two states, along with Arkansas and Louisiana, since the start of July due to renewed fears with the Delta variant.
Greene also came after Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. She said Fauci 'funded' Covid-19 through the National Institutes of Health's grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
'That is his baby,' Greene said of gain-of-function research, which Republicans have said could have been used by the Wuhan lab to make coronavirus more lethal for research before the pandemic.
Volunteers and staffers knock on a door during an outreach effort to inform residents about a scheduled COVID-19 vaccination event, on June 30, 2021, in Birmingham, Alabama
Vaccination rates have more than doubled in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana since the start of July due to renewed fears with the Delta variant.
'That is his experiment, and he's getting to watch it in the real world, like on a live television show where he has a front row seat. He gets to watch what happens.'
Greene has made a number of Nazi comparisons to express her distaste for the government's coronavirus prevention efforts. In July, the Georgia Republican compared door-to-door vaccine promoters to 'medical brown shirts,' or members of the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing.
One month before, she had apologized for saying vaccine passports are the same as yellow stars worn by Jews during the Holocaust.
'I wanted to say that I know that words that I've stated were hurtful, and for that I am very sorry,' Greene said after a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC prompted by the widespread backlash her comparison drew.
She added: 'The horrors of the Holocaust are something that some people don't even believe happened, and some people deny, but there is no comparison to the Holocaust.