The Arizona lawmaker defended the Georgia representative calling her 'an American treasure,' after her apology was rejected by the American Jewish Congress.
, as the furor continues over her comparison of compulsory COVID masks with the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.—which included masks being worn on the chamber floor—to the order for Jews to wear"a gold star."
She had been condemned from both sides of the aisle in May for those comments to the conservative outlet Real America's Voice, in which she also referred to such measures in the same sentence as being"put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany." Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Capitol Hill on June 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. She apologized for comparing COVID prevention rules to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.But Greene acknowledged that her remarks were"offensive," in a mea culpa that followed a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
The freshman Georgia lawmaker said:"I have made a mistake," and said that there is"no comparison to the Holocaust." "There are words I've said, remarks I've said, that I know have been offensive and for that I want to apologize," she said on Monday in a statement that
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