The GOP congresswoman from Georgia also told a crowd in New York that 'we would have won' if she had organized the insurrection at the Capitol in 2021.
U.S. Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene talks to reporters before former US president Donald Trump speaks at a"Save America" rally in Warren, Michigan, on October 1, 2022. The Georgia politician has been criticized for saying she would've made sure the January 6 insurrection"would've been armed.""Then Jan. 6 happened. And, next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon," Greene said.
"And I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would've been armed. "See that's the whole joke, isn't it? They say that whole thing was planned, and I'm like, are you kidding me? A bunch of conservatives, Second-Amendment supporters, went in the Capitol without guns, and they think that we organized that?" she added.
Despite Greene's remarks, a number of people were arrested for having guns at the January 6, 2021, protests in Washington D.C. The House Select committee investigating the insurrection also revealed Trump was told that some members of the crowd were armed during his speech at the Ellipse in Washington D.C that day, but the former president still told them
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