Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens to Call Cops on Conservative Reporter in the Capitol: ‘You’re Harassing Me’

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatened to call the police on John McCormack, a senior editor at The Dispatch, after he asked her a series of questions about Iran and the American blood on its regime’s hands on Tuesday.

While Greene is typically a reliable supporter of President Donald Trump, she has been outspokenly critical of his decision to strike three of Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend.

“I don’t know anyone in America who has been the victim of a crime or killed by Iran, but I know many people who have been victims of crime committed by criminal illegal aliens or MURDERED by Cartel and Chinese fentanyl/drugs,” Greene posted on X on Sunday before assailing the “Neocon warmongers beat their drums of war and act like Billy badasses going to war in countries most Americans have never seen and can’t find on a map.”

“I can also support President Trump and his great administration on many of the great things they are doing while disagreeing on bombing Iran and getting involved in a hot war that Israel started,” she continued. “Now what has been done is done and Americans now fear Iranian terrorists attacks on our own soil and being dragged into another war by [Benjamin] Netanyahu when we weren’t even thinking about any of this a week ago.”

On Tuesday, McCormack asked her about her comments about Iran not having killed Americans, given its role in murdering many in the decades since its Islamic Revolution.

“I was talking about our homeland,” she explained. “There’s been plenty of, unfortunately, great men and women in our military who were sent to fight foreign wars, by our government, that have been injured and killed by Iran.”

Greene did say she’d tell the families of those killed by Iran that “It’s terrible. It’s absolutely terrible,” though.

McCormack continued to press her. From his story for The Dispatch:

Then I asked Greene if the Iranian attacks on Americans demonstrated that the United
States had national interest in the strike against Iran—that it wasn’t simply done to advance the interests of Israel, as Greene now claims. By this point, Greene was furious at my questioning.

“Your goal is to attack me and twist my words,” she said. I tried to ask Greene two more times if Iranian attacks on Americans proved the U.S. had a national interest in striking Iran’s nuclear facilities. Greene deflected and interrupted each time. “I’m done talking to you,” she said. “You know what? I’m going to go tell the Capitol police you’re harassing me.”

The exchange occurred in a hallway (connecting the Capitol to a House office building) where credentialed members of the congressional press corps have every right to ask members of Congress questions—including follow-up questions, no matter how annoying those questions may be. Members of Congress, of course, have every right to dodge, deflect, and stonewall in response to reporters’ questions—no matter how cowardly such evasions may be. (Greene’s accusation that public policy questions constituted harassment is especially risible, given her history of chasing down a teenage victim of the Parkland school shooting.)

In addition to threatening to sic the cops on McCormack, Greene has called on Fox News to fire Mark Levin, with whom she’s spent the last several days feuding.

“You should be fired from Fox News. And shame on Fox if they condone this,” wrote Greene in a post on X after Levin called her “stupid,” and expressed gratitude that “POTUS ignored you.”