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"It is antithetical to our values as a country for a member of
Congress to wish that the carnage of Jan. 6 had been even worse, and
to brag that they would have succeeded in an armed insurrection
against the United States government," White House press secretary
Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
"Violent rhetoric like this is a slap in the face of the Capitol
Police, the DC Metropolitan Police, the National Guard and the
families who lost loved ones as a result of the attack on the
Capitol," Jean-Pierre said.
Greene joked about the Jan. 6 attacks, which resulted in five deaths
and over 100 police officers injured, over the weekend in a speech
to a gala of the New York Young Republicans Club on Park Avenue in
Manhattan.
"January 6 happened, and next thing you know, I organized the whole
thing, along with Steve Bannon here. And I will tell you something,
if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to
mention, it would’ve been armed," Greene said, referring to the
one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump.
She also added: "See that's the whole joke, isn't it? They say that
whole thing was planned and I'm like, are you kidding me? A bunch of
conservatives, Second Amendment supporters, went in the Capitol
without guns, and they think that we organized that? I don't think
so."
Greene in a statement to CNN on Monday said she was being sarcastic
and denied any involvement in the Jan. 6 attack. Greene invited
people on Twitter to attend the Jan. 6 event before it happened.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Kanishka Singh and Steve Holland;
Editing by Mark Porter, Heather Timmons and Marguerita Choy)
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