Video: Democrat Cori Bush ‘berated’ Marjorie Taylor Greene first

Two outspoken freshmen House members this month clashed over masks in the Capitol, with Democratic Rep. Cori Bush wrongly suggesting that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene started it.

Bush, of St. Louis, Friday tweeted about the Jan. 13 confrontation, “A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway.”

But shortly later, Taylor Greene, of Georgia, posted a video taken at the time that showed it was Bush and someone else who yelled first, barking “follow the rules and wear a mask,” and “stop inciting violence.”

With her video, she tweeted of Bush and apparently a staffer, “She is lying to you. She berated me. Maybe Rep. Bush didn’t realize I was live on video, but I have the receipts.”

At the time, Greene was walking in the tunnel between the Cannon House Office Building and the Capitol, on a Facebook livestream disputing charges she supported the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol and accusing Democrats of looking the other way on antifa violence in several cities over the past year.

As she spoke, her black mask, with the word “Censored” on it, was around her chin. At about 37 seconds into the video, Bush yells “put on a mask” at Greene.

As the video rolls, Greene pulled up her mask and turned back to say, “You know what, don’t yell at people,” as Bush continues to shout about masks.

Greene then referenced the surprising decision by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to let coronavirus infected members into the Capitol to vote for her for speaker. “You shouldn’t bring COVID positive members in here spreading COVID everywhere. Stop being a hypocrite.”

Greene, under fire for old videos on her social media accounts that Democrats said sound threatening, concluded, “Yeah, this is how it is here now. This is how it is — stop being a hypocrite — this is arguing with my Democrat, Democrat colleagues, supposed colleagues. That’s how it is, that’s how it is now in America. So you’re witnessing exactly what we’re having to live through.”

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