Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed she was attacked and berated by a woman and her adult son while dining at a restaurant with staff.
The Congresswoman said the woman stood “very close” to her and began loudly and verbally attacking her and calling her names. The other member of the dining party purportedly shouted “f— you, Marjorie” according to the congresswoman.
Greene told “Hannity” she was having a working supper with two staff members in preparation for Tuesday’s House committee hearings when the attack occurred.
She blamed the tenor of political oppositional attacks on direct rhetoric from fellow Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a Democrat from Los Angeles.
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In 2018, Waters made outdoor public remarks in Los Angeles, wherein she instructed supporters to confront and harass members of the Trump administration if they are seen at “restaurants… department stores [or] gasoline stations.”
“You get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore anywhere,” Waters said.
Greene said Waters’ instructions to liberal supporters combined with Hillary Clinton’s noted “basket of deplorables” description of conservatives has given such people as the woman and her son free rein to harass and attack people they disagree with.
“Back when Hillary Clinton declared that we’re all deplorables, they basically tried to claim that we’re second-class citizens simply because we’re conservative,” she said, also expounding on Waters’ comments.
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“This was the dog whistle for all the people on the left, Democrat voters everywhere, and fully supported by the Democrat Party to attack Republicans in public no matter what. There is no line they will not cross.”
She called those who would heed the orders of Waters and rhetoric of Clinton as “insane,” saying the confrontational atmosphere in America should “stop right…
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