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Normally, Marjorie Taylor Greene's performances tend to trigger frustration or even horror, at least from political opponents, depending on the tone of voice.
The most recent dropout, on the other hand, has primarily brought ridicule to the controversial US MP.
During an appearance on Tuesday evening on the extremely conservative US broadcaster One America News, the Republican from the state of Georgia criticized "Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police who spy on congressmen".
She obviously wanted to allude to the Gestapo, but mistook the word for the cold vegetable soup from Spain.
Pelosi is the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives and hated by many conservatives, who resent her, among other things, the House Committee investigating the storming of the Capitol by supporters of former US President Donald Trump in January 2021.
In response to the slip, well-known Spanish chef José Andrés Greene offered to try a batch of real gazpacho at one of his restaurants in Washington.
Greene tried his hand at self-mockery on Wednesday.
She wrote on Twitter: "No soup for those illegally spying on members of Congress, they will be thrown in the goulash".
The reference to the Hungarian meat soup was apparently an allusion to another statement from her unsuccessful TV appearance, in which she accused the Democrats of putting the attackers on the Capitol in the "Gulag".
Jokes aside, Greene's demeanor and political leanings are moderately amusing.
The politician, who has backed Trump's vote-rigging allegations, is notorious for spreading conspiracy theories.
Among other things, she had compared the vaccination card during the pandemic with the yellow Jewish star – a popular comparison among people who refuse to vaccinate in Germany.
She also supported online calls for the execution of well-known Democratic politicians like Pelosi.
opposition from his own party
She repeatedly downplays the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
At least on this issue, however, she is in line with large parts of her party.
The Republicans had described the attack, which killed five people, as "legitimate political expression" and dismissed internal party critics.
After this controversial resolution, the party's highest-ranking representative in the Senate spoke out against downplaying the storming of the Capitol.
The attack on the seat of the US Parliament in Washington a year ago was a "violent uprising" - "with the aim of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power," Mitch McConnell told Congress on Tuesday.
The result of the presidential election had been “legally certified”.
Trump claims to this day without evidence that there was fraud in the election.
In this false claim, he is diligently supported, among others, by right-wingers like Greene.
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