Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Dems Trying to Remove Her from the Ballot

CLAY: We’re joined now by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from the great state of Georgia. And I saw you over the weekend and I wanted to ask you… I asked you the same thing I’m gonna ask you on the show here. How about Independence Day? I know you had the kangaroo court questioning that was going on, but did you ever think you were gonna get grilled about the movie Independence Day, and that they would play a clip from that movie as part of an attempt to disqualify you from being able to serve in Congress?

REP. GREENE: (laughing) Let’s just say “no” to the entire question you just asked ’cause, number one, that was my first time ever even having to go in court, like actually being in court. I’ve never been in court before, and then to be on the witness stand questioned and challenged over something that I never did, never have been charged with.

No one has been charged or convicted with it, and the January 6th committee here in Washington has never even asked me one question or sent me a letter. That was shocking. But number three: I can’t even tell you, when he was asking me about the movie Independence Day and trying to say that’s where I got my inspiration for this horrible lie he was telling about me?

I kid you not; I was so shocked. I was like, “This guy is such a clown, and he’s making mockery of this court, but he’s also making a complete fool of himself,” and I couldn’t even remember the movie. I’d seen it years ago. I don’t even know when it came out, but it was absolutely insane. It was so laughable and pathetic. It was just too much.

BUCK: Congresswoman, I believe they made a sequel and I’m just gonna tell you, not worth seeing from what I understand.

CLAY: The aliens came back? The aliens came back again, Buck?

BUCK: I think it was Independence Day II.

CLAY: You’re right. I don’t even remember that.

REP. GREENE: (laughing)

BUCK: Just trying to save her some time. Can you tell everybody — and thanks for being with us, of course. Can you tell everybody what happened here? Because we talked about this, we mentioned in the show last week, it kind of bubbled up in the news cycle, all of a sudden, you’re on the stand being asked questions because someone has sued to prevent you from being able to run for reelection because of the “insurrection!” Like, how did this even happen? Can you tell us what this was all about?

REP. GREENE: Yeah, that is the question everyone’s asking. There’s a lot of confusion about it. So what everyone needs to understand is there is a 501(c)(3). It’s an organization that is funded, and they’re called Free Speech For People — Free Speech For People, which is the most (laughing) hypocritical name because they’re literally trying to silence my free speech and my district’s free speech by ripping my name off the ballot and taking away my district’s ability to even cast a vote for me.

They’re destroying free speech. And they’re destroying democracy. And they are meddling in our elections. These guys are from New York and Massachusetts. They’re not even from Georgia! But what they’re doing is they’re using a plan that Marc Elias — you know, Hillary Clinton’s nasty election attorney that concocted the whole Russian collusion idea.

They’re taking his plan, and they are implementing it against multiple Republican members of Congress and state legislators. We’re not the only ones. But in my case because of our state laws, it has gone way too far. And so what they do is, Free Speech For People, they go and they go and find voters. Let me tell you how they got…

We have over 700,000 people in my district. These guys managed to drum up five, five voters that they could talk into doing this lawsuit. One of the five happens to be the Democrat district chair of my district. So you can imagine how they got five voters in my district. They called her and said, you know, find some friends. Well, she found four.

Congratulations to them. And they filed this challenge. Well, the group has also done this to Madison Cawthorn, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Tom Tiffany, Congressman Fitzgerald. There’s a whole line of Republicans the same group is targeting. So this whole thing is political. It is a complete scam. It’s funded — it is literally funded — by dark money groups, other 501(c)(3)s, and they are truly meddling in our elections.

Well, because of the laws in Georgia — and it’s a candidacy qualifications challenge. Typical that would be a challenge like where do you live, do you live in the state, or how old are you? Are you old enough to run for office? But they’re twisting the Fourth Amendment, section 3 of the 14th Amendment and they’re playing what should be only talked about in Congress, because that’s how it’s written.

Instead they’re trying to put it on the state level, which is absolutely wrong and they’re trying to say that… They’re claiming that I engaged in an insurrection — which I did not and it’s provable — and they’re saying because of that I don’t qualify to run for Congress, which is an absolute lie about me. It’s slander, it’s very wrong, and these guys should lose their license to practice law.

CLAY: Congresswoman, I was fascinated by the procedural posture here — and this is me putting my lawyer hat on ’cause I’m a lawyer as well. For female out there who might be confused by this entire process, they are using a part of law that was implemented to apply against former Confederate soldiers and representatives in the government of the Confederacy to try to keep you from being eligible to run.

It hasn’t been applied in over a hundred years. Clearly was not drafted with this in mind. But for people out there to be thinking about this, we’re talking about something that was designed in the 1860s to be applied to former Confederate soldiers and officials in the wake of the Civil War.

That’s what they’re trying to use to get you off the ballot. So what happens now? So I believe I’m correct that the primary day in Georgia is around May 24th, if I’m not mistaken. How does this play out, what’s the time frame, what are your legal advisers telling you is going to happen?

REP. GREENE: Well, everybody across the board — I mean, both sides of the aisle, attorneys everywhere — are saying that they’re going to fail, that this is a complete farce. And just as you described — good job, you described that very well — this is a Civil War era and that’s what it was meant for. Not at all for going after members of Congress who object.

We objected and were allowed to do that legally and lawfully, just like the Democrats objected to the past three Republican elected presidents. We did nothing wrong. And the other thing to point out is I was a victim of that riot because I was in the House Chamber when it happened and was shocked, scared, and tweeted out a video telling people to stop!

So the whole thing is just unbelievable. What’s going to happen next is, you know, I was on the witness stand for I think it was almost four hours, you know, and they went through all their questioning and they presented their CNN articles and the Independence Day movie and Mother Jones chopped up videos as their (chuckles) “evidence.”

The judge — and then, you know, my attorneys thankfully they’re so great, they did such a good job by trying to actually talking about the law and talking about, you know, my defense and how this is so wrong. The judge will write up his ruling. Both attorneys have until tomorrow, Thursday, to present their briefs, and the judge will write up his ruling, send it to our Georgia secretary of state, what is Brad Raffensperger, and then Brad Raffensperger is the one who actually makes a decision based on the findings of the administrative law court.

BUCK: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, everybody. Oh, one more question for you. Did they really ask you if 1776 was a call to violence, just mentioning 1776? What was that all about?

REP. GREENE: That is what they were accusing me of and then which was honestly just outrageous. It’s so outrageous. On our state seal which hung on the wall behind the judge literally in the center of the courtroom for everyone to see is 1776. It’s is on our state seal, the Georgia State seal.

So by their accusations and their description of anyone talking about 1776, they were basically saying that that entire courtroom was waging an insurrection by having — and the state of Georgia by having — 1776 on the seal. They were saying that anytime anyone talks about 1776, it’s a call for war or insurrection or violence.

Which is actually completely opposite of what I talk about when I talk about 1776. And people in my district, people all over America remember 1776 as we talk about our freedoms and how thankful we are and the courage that our Founding Fathers had with writing the Declaration of Independence. And that is what we’re referring to.

We don’t… The whole reason we talk about 1776 is because we never want war again, and we don’t want a civil war. We don’t want war. And that was the… That’s why we’re so focused on doing a legal and lawful objection in Congress as members of Congress. We don’t want the things that happened on January 6th. We don’t want anything like that.

CLAY: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. We appreciate the time. I hope that they don’t determine that you are a Confederate soldier based on the precedent that they were attempting to apply there. (laughing) Thanks for hanging out with us.

REP. GREENE: (laughing) Well, if that’s the case, I’d say I look pretty good for a Confederate soldier. (laughing)

CLAY: I agree.

REP. GREENE: Thank you so much.

CLAY: You’d have to be 180 years old.

REP. GREENE: Yeah.

CLAY: That is Marjorie Taylor Greene, congresswoman from north Georgia.