Book Review Destroys Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Bizarre Memoir That Jabs Older Democrats For Not Running Fast Enough On Jan. 6
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) upcoming memoir titled “MTG” received an absolute pan of a review in the Guardian on Wednesday in a write-up that also included a lengthy fact check.
Martin Pengelly’s review includes the subtitle, “Extremist Republican says in book ‘not one Democrat was willing to stay to defend the chamber’ but claim rejected as ‘patently false’” – which largely sums up the article.
“In her first book, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals her personal account of the battles she fights in the halls of Congress and beyond,” reads the publisher’s description on Amazon, adding:
No other book pulls back the curtain on Washington, the swamp, and the Democrat political elite like MTG. MTG’s story will inspire anyone who has ever felt that their voice isn’t powerful enough to make a difference.
Pengelly certainly had a much different view on the book and noted, “Greene’s book pursues her familiar conspiracy theory-laced invective, taking shots at targets including Democrats, the media and Lauren Boebert, another Republican extremist with whom Greene has fallen out.”
While recounting the events of January 6th she repeated much of her regular rhetoric, arguing that the rioters have since been victimized by the federal government and that more guns on Capitol Hill that day would have stemmed the violence.
She boasted that Republican members “carried concealed weapons and were ready to be good guys with guns, defending themselves and others if need be” while claiming Democrats fled the chamber.
Pengelly shoots that narrative down, writing:
In an oral history of January 6 by Business Insider, Raúl Grijalva, of Arizona, said: “You also saw members doing their part to facilitate our evacuation – Seth Moulton [of Massachusetts, a marines veteran], Ruben Gallego, and four or five others … who assumed a role of helping us to get out of there and working with the Capitol police to make sure that we were all safe.”
Gallego, also of Arizona and a former marine, told the same site: “Eventually what I did was I jumped up on a table and started giving instructions to people about how to open up the gas mask. We start seeing the doors being barricaded with furniture. We start hearing the noise of people – the insurrectionists – pounding on doors. Especially in the gallery.”
Greene goes on to conclude one of her takeaways from that day was that some members were too old to flee from the pro-Trump rioters.
“I saw that it was a problem that so many of our representatives were older and physically unable to run. How do you get them to safety when they cannot move quickly because of age, physical ailments, or lack of physical fitness?” Greene wrote, adding:
Oh, and many were hysterical, with the plastic bags over their heads in fear of teargas and the little electric fans running so they couldn’t hear, either. Just imagine Jerry Nadler trying to run for safety!
