Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) is leading a push to censure controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) over a tweet likening President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler.
Schneider previously weighed introducing a resolution to condemn her over controversial remarks that were perceived as antisemitic by many within Congress last year but ultimately refrained after the Georgia Republican apologized for her comments.
But a video Greene posted to social media that altered Biden’s appearance to show him with a mustache and swastikas behind him sparked the Illinois Democrat to move forward with introducing the measure on Thursday, the Washington Post reported.
“I called out Rep. Greene in 2021 when she debased the memory of all those murdered in the Holocaust, and the heroic men and women who fought and died defending democracy against Hitler and his evil. Shortly afterwards, she apologized and said she understood the harm of false comparisons to the singular evil of the Nazis,” Schneider said in a statement last month when declaring he planned to redraft the resolution.
“Clearly, she has not learned, or worse perhaps she doesn’t care. She continues to dismiss the horrors of the Holocaust and use vile comparisons to incite her fans and divide our nation. Her hateful rhetoric has no place in our politics and certainly not in the chambers of Congress. She owes the American people, the survivors and families of those persecuted by the Nazis, and every family of what is still the ‘Greatest Generation’ an immediate apology.”
Schnieder added that he believes her previous apology following her visit to the Holocaust Museum after she came under fire for likening COVID-19 restrictions to the Holocaust was “insincere” and called on his colleagues on both sides to rebuke her rhetoric.
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