'It's too much': Marjorie Taylor Greene gets emotional over 'all the pain' election deniers face
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) seemed emotional on Tuesday as she apologized to people who denied the results of the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021.
At a meeting chaired by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Republican lawmakers spoke out against the prosecution of Jan. 6 defendants. Greene used her time to apologize to the election deniers and their families.
"It's so heavy on my heart that we're doing this today when President Trump is being arraigned, all because of the weaponized government that's been weaponized against each of you," Greene opined. "And it all started on the day on Jan. 6 when we were just doing our constitutional duty to object to Joe Biden's fraudulent Electoral College votes because we all believed that the election had been stolen."
Greene expressed her "deepest sympathy for each of you and all the pain and suffering that you've all had to go through because of this government."
The lawmaker worried that releasing tapes from Jan. 6 could empower "sedition hunters" to track down new defendants.
"And I know that everybody can look at it and say, we all know who everyone is now, but at the same time, that means that the Department of Justice will be coming after more people," she warned. "That's too much. I don't want to see anyone end up like you."
Greene's voice cracked as she called the names of witnesses who faced punishment for their roles on Jan. 6.
"John, I don't want to see you go to jail," she told John Strand, a convicted Jan. 6 defendant. "I don't want to see it, and I don't want to see this happen to any more people because of sick, evil people that believe that they have to hunt people down using facial recognition software and go after more people."
"I don't want to see that," Greene added. "It's too much."