One thing’s for certain regarding Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: When it comes to conspiratorial impeachment pushes, she wants her credit.
The Georgia Republican’s outburst toward Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., last year over who’d receive credit for trying to impeach President Joe Biden was revealing.
And now Greene is trying her damnedest to ensure she gets credit for another impeachment effort: House Republicans’ baseless push to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Given that she has been floated as one of former President Donald Trump’s potential vice presidential picks, one theory of mine is that she may want to play up her successes on the impeachment front to aid her chances.
Regardless, Democrats are happy to give her all the credit she desires when it comes to this effort, as Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., demonstrated Tuesday as the House Homeland Security Committee met to discuss the impeachment articles against Mayorkas. The Mississippi Democrat name-checked Greene as being among those who have “pushed for and even fundraised based on this preplanned, predetermined scapegoating of the secretary.”
Greene has gone on a press tour to emphasize her view that the Mayorkas impeachment push wouldn’t have reached this point without her. And to talk about how the effort aligns with Trump’s political plans.
After all, she has been a key voice in the House pushing the MAGA movement’s claim that the immigration crisis unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border is because Mayorkas — and the Biden administration more broadly — has willfully disobeyed immigration laws. And according to conservative extremists such as Greene, the impetus is that Democrats want to alter the United States’ demographic makeup. (This belief aligns with the racist “replacement theory” espoused by many white nationalists.)
On Monday, Greene told The Hill that this week’s movement forward on impeachment is “absolutely” the…
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