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.”
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.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 29, 2021
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.
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.
She is lying to you. She berated me.
Maybe Rep. Bush didn’t realize I was live on video, but I have the receipts. https://t.co/CJjnI3ZTjC pic.twitter.com/ZMLGOGjxKw
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) January 29, 2021
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.”
A Message to the Mob from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene pic.twitter.com/bdbG4OGrlK
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) January 29, 2021