Taylor Greene: Capitol Attack ‘Would’ve Been Armed’ if I Was in Charge

The controversial far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene bragged that if she was in charge of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the Capitol, the violent crowd would have won, and everyone “would’ve been armed.” 

Greene is notorious for making unhinged, provocative comments. 

Greene said that if she and former Donald Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon were in charge of organizing the deadly insurrection, the mob would have won. 

The remarks came during a speech to a gala of the New York Young Republicans Club on Park Avenue in Manhattan over the weekend. 

“January 6 happened, and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon here. 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,” Greene said. 

Bannon sat in the audience, as well as Donald Trump Jr. and other far-right figures, such as the founders of Vdare, a white nationalist website that opposes immigration. 

Greene’s remarks were met with cheers. 

Greene has made frequent controversial statements, including racist ones, and her support for the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. 

In April, she was forced to testify about her actions in the run-up to the Capitol insurrection in a court hearing in Georgia in which opponents attempted to bar her from Congress. 

At the hearing, text messages between Greene and Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows were shown. In one, she told Meadows that other Congress members were telling her that “the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call Marshall [sic] law … They stole this election. We all know that.”

She claims she was a victim of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Greene was not the only one to make outlandish remarks at the Park Avenue event. 

The president of the Young Republican hosts, Gavin Wax, called for “total war” against liberals.

“We want total war,” he said. “We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media, in the courtroom, at the ballot box. And in the streets.”