CNN’s Jake Tapper cursed out far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for hypocrisy on dwell TV after the conspiracy theory-peddling lawmaker authored a movement to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), which accused Tlaib of “antisemitic exercise” over her criticism of Israel.
“The diploma to which some people solely fake to care about antisemitism once they can weaponize it by no means ceases to amaze,” Tapper stated to shut Sunday’s episode of “State of the Union.”
“The main Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, he dined with Holocaust deniers,” Tapper recalled. “Donald Trump posted a screed accusing liberal Jews of ‘voting to destroy America and Israel’ final Rosh Hashanah to nary a peep from any Home Republican leaders.”
Tapper then targeted on Greene’s historical past of antisemitic feedback.
“This is similar Marjorie Taylor Greene who has pushed the good alternative concept in movies, the deranged notion that wealthy Jews try to switch white Individuals and Westerners with Blacks and brown Muslims. To not point out, in fact, her Jewish area laser conspiracy {that a} consortium together with, sure, rich Jews, had been utilizing lasers on satellites to begin forest fires.”
Greene additionally likened COVID pandemic masks mandates to the Holocaust.
“Antisemitism shouldn’t be a cudgel for use in opposition to individuals for political factors,” stated Tapper. “Neither is Islamophobia or racism, or anti-gay conduct or misogyny or another form of bigotry.”
“This shit shouldn’t be a sport,” he concluded.
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