Marjorie Taylor Greene snaps at British reporter’s Signal scandal question: ‘Go back to your country’
Marjorie Taylor Greene told off a British reporter Wednesday, demanding she “go back to your country” after the Georgia congressman was asked to address the Signal scandal.
“Wait, what country are you from?” asked Greene, a Republican, shortly after she headed the House Committee on Oversight & Accountability’s Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency hearing.
“We don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting,” the congresswoman continued. “Why don’t you go back to your country, where you have a major migrant problem. You should care about your own borders.”
Taylor Greene interrupted the reporter’s line of questioning on the scandal ensnaring several Trump cabinet and administration officials after it was revealed they discussed airstrikes in Yemen in a Signal group chat a reporter was added to.
“Let me tell you something: do you care about people from your country? What about the women that are raped by migrants?” Taylor Greene said. “I don’t care about your fake news.”
The congresswoman then acknowledged an American journalist, who followed up on his British colleague’s question.
“I’m an American, and I’d like to hear your answer to what she said,” the reporter said.
When pressed if she was concerned about operational security in response to the scandal, Taylor Greene responed: “you wanna know about complete disregard about operational security? You should talk about the Biden administration, how they ripped our borders open to terrorists, cartel, child sex trafficking, human trafficking and drug trafficking across our border for four years. The Trump administration is doing a great job and I stand by their statements.”
The congresswoman said she wanted the focus of the media scrum to be on the hearings on slashing NPR and PBS funding.
“We’re talking about NPR and PBS today. We’re talking about fake news that was funded with federally funding from American taxpayers,” she said. “That’s what this is about today, not journalists from the U.K. that should care about their own country.”