Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends Attendance at White Nationalist Conference

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday defended attending a white nationalist conference in Orlando, Fla., on Friday night, arguing that she was only there to “talk to the audience.”

In a recorded interview Saturday with CBS News correspondent Robert Costa, Greene said she did not personally know Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist leader who organized Friday night’s conference at the Orlando World Center Marriott.

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Greene — whose personal account was banned from Twitter and who was stripped of two committee assignments last year for promoting violence against Democrats — spoke out against cancel culture at AFPAC on Friday night.

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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) condemned Greene’s presence at the conference.

“Does Marjorie Taylor Greene know no shame?” DNC spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement

Moussa called for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to remove Greene from the caucus.

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In her interview with Costa, Greene said she wanted to “talk to them about America First policies.”

“The reason why I went is to talk to the audience, just like I’ve talked to many different audiences,” she said. {snip}