Twitter got into overdrive on Thursday after footage of a heated exchange between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and CNN reporter Jim Acosta was uploaded to the platform.
In the video, Greene berated Acosta after the CNN anchor confronted her with her past text message where she floated declaring martial law to keep former President Donald Trump in the White House.
“Did you send a text asking the president to declare martial law?” Acosta asked her as the two of them walked down the street in Washington D.C.
“You know, I don’t recall those being my text messages,” Greene replied.
Acosta then took out his phone and read a text she wrote on January 17, 2021, aloud.
“In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law [sic]. I don’t know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him,” the text reads.
Acosta then tried to ask her why she would even think of bringing up martial law more than a week after Congress legally certified the results of the 2020 election results.
That’s when Greene lost it in a fit of rage.
“You’re lying!” she said. “You know why people don’t like you? Because you’re a liar! Why do you want to lie on television!”
Check the video and some of the reactions below:
Marge Greene gets hot when confronted by Jim Acosta today about the text by her suggesting Trump should declare martial law. pic.twitter.com/Rq1KgsKuyT
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 28, 2022
— Mark James (@MarkJam92731126) April 28, 2022
So, she doesn't recall it…but it's being misinterpreted. Get it?
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) April 28, 2022
Hey @RepMTG ~ Do you "Recall" WHERE you were & WHAT you were doing on the evening of Jan. 5? https://t.co/FjxQvdjswL
— The Resistor Sister®️♥️🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻 (@the_resistor) April 28, 2022
So here's the lie.
First she says she can't recall or doesn't know if she wrote the text.
Then she says- read my words.
MTG can't keep track of her lies from one minute to the next.— Helene (@normalvoter) April 28, 2022
I hate the liars in Congress more than I hate any other liar. #PerjuryTaylorGreene
— Richard the Grouchy-Hearted 🇺🇦 (@RickResisted) April 28, 2022
Not even close to answering him, only attacking him, I am not too old to remember MTG walking up to and attacking a teenager that was the victim of gun violence, but here she is melting down in front of the cameras.
— Party of Fear (@kdevil66) April 28, 2022
No. Why would she bring it up if she wasn’t trying to offer it as an option? If “several member” were asking about it, they could have brought it up.
Acosta keeps trying to ask her why she would even bring it up, but she keeps talking over him. Acosta isn’t in the wrong here.
— Murray Burns (@sardinest) April 28, 2022
She is so fucking guilty!
— Mayo 🇺🇦🌻 (@MayoIsSpicyy) April 28, 2022
who elected this person?
— Jason McIntyre (@jasonrmcintyre) April 28, 2022
Read the tweet, no stop reading the tweet, no you are lying when reading my tweet which might not be my tweet, my tweet says I don't know anything, but I don't recall if I know anything, people hate you…. She seems stable.
— Charlie the drama beagle (@al_bahrani_) April 28, 2022
