Hallway clash: Video of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Cori Bush ‘berating’ revealed

Greene, a far-right firebrand, is facing calls to be expelled from committees or Congress altogether after it was revealed this week that her Facebook page “liked” a 2019 social media post saying that “a bullet to the head” would be a “quicker” way to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She’s previously come under fire for objecting to the Electoral College results in the wake of the Jan. 6 mob attack on the United States Capitol and for flirting with conspiracy theories.

The confrontation, Bush said, prompted her to make plans to move her congressional office. Capitol Hill offices for Bush and Greene are both located on the ground floor of the Longworth House Office Building.

“A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media. I’m moving my office away from hers for my team’s safety. I’ve called for the expulsion of members who incited the insurrection from Day 1. Bring H.Res 25 to a vote,” Bush tweeted Friday.

A few hours later, Greene released a video of the confrontation from Jan. 13 and said it was Bush who was the antagonist.

“Rep. @CoriBush is the leader of the St. Louis Black Lives Matter terrorist mob who trespassed into a gated neighborhood to threaten the lives of the McCloskey’s,” Greene tweeted. “She is lying to you. She berated me. Maybe Rep. Bush didn’t realize I was live on video, but I have the receipts.”

The video shows Greene talking to a camera, her mask around her chin rather than over her mouth and nose, while walking through a tunnel in the U.S. Capitol complex from Capitol Hill to the House office buildings.

In the distance, Bush can be heard yelling at Greene about her mask.

Greene turns around, puts her masks back on, and says, “You know what? … Don’t yell at people.”

“You know what? You shouldn’t bring COVID-positive members in here,” Greene said, a reference to Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin showing up in person to vote for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi despite testing positive for the coronavirus a week beforehand.

After the video release, Bush put out a statement that noted that multiple Democratic members tested positive for the coronavirus after being confined in a room with Greene and other maskless Republicans during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

“I was walking with my staff to vote. I was in the tunnel between the Cannon Office Building and the Capitol when Marjorie Taylor Greene came up from behind me, ranting loudly into her phone while not wearing a mask,” Bush said.

“Out of concern for the health of my staff, other members of Congress, and their congressional staff, I repeatedly called out to her to put on a mask. Taylor Greene and her staff responded by berating me, with one staffer yelling, ‘Stop inciting violence with Black Lives Matter,'” Bush continued.

She also noted previous Greene comments that blamed Bush for “leading” the mob that trespassed on the home of the McCloskey family in St. Louis.

“Taylor Greene’s renewed, repeated antagonization of the movement for Black lives in the last month directed towards me personally is serious cause for concern,” Bush said.