COLUMNIST: Marjorie Taylor Greene heckled the president. Her own hecklers went to jail
On the one hand, you have to admire U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's willingness to do an in-person town hall meeting in the first place. With death threats now a part of her daily reality, she'd have a legitimate excuse to avoid public confrontations.
But Greene has consistently done town halls, and avoiding confrontation isn't part of the MTG brand, if you haven't noticed. In fact, Greene has built her bring-it-on persona on a few well-timed, highly visible public confrontations, starting with heckling President Joe Biden at his State of the Union address in 2022.
When the Democratic president called for stronger border security, Greene and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert started to chant, "Build the wall!" to demand the U.S. erect a wall on the southern border with Mexico--as then-former President Donald Trump had promised.
The next year, Greene was back at the State of the Union, this time wearing a white fur-trimmed coat as she yelled, "You lie! You lie!" at President Biden after he claimed some Republicans wanted to cut Medicare and Social Security. As she sat down, she yelled, "Liar!" one more time.
In 2024, Greene attended the State of the Union in a bright red MAGA hat and matching red blazer and disrupted the speech again. "What about Laken Riley?" she screamed at........
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