Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, an outspoken Republican, ripped on Kathy Griffin on Wednesday after the comic threatened a “civil war” if the GOP regains control of Congress in November.
The liberal celebrity jumped on a recent wave of Democratic accusations against Trump supporters, saying that the survival of democracy depends on preventing someone of the ex-caliber president’s from holding public office.
Griffin wrote on Twitter Tuesday, ‘If you don’t want a Civil War, vote for Democrats in November. If you do want Civil War, vote Republican.’
‘This sounds very threatening Kathy,’ Greene shot back the next day.
‘Americans just want their elected leaders to solve the problems that have been shoved into their lives by stupid politicians. Not your civil war.’
But Greene has signaled support for dividing the United States in the recent past, floating the term ‘national divorce’ on more than one occasion.
That includes an October 2021 Twitter poll asking Americans if they would support a ‘national divorce’ between red and blue states, and a December post on the platform reacting to a Twitter user’s complaints about Democrat transplants in predominantly Republican areas.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused comedian Kathy Griffin of making a ‘threatening’ Twitter post
Griffin had warned that a ‘civil war’ may break out if Republicans win both houses of Congress in the midterm elections
Griffin is no stranger to controversy, having first set off a political firestorm on the right when she posed for a photo with a clearly fake replica of Trump’s severed and bloodied head.
Greene’s poll asking Americans whether they wanted a ‘national divorce’ wound up netting nearly 85,000 votes, with a majority of 47.7 percent selecting ‘No, stay together.’
But in a testament to today’s political divisions, nearly just as many people – 43 percent — chose ‘Yes, by [Republican] & [Democrat] states.’
She told former Trump adviser and podcast host Steve Bannon that Americans found ‘irreconcilable differences’ in each other that same month.
Greene said her poll should be ‘a wakeup call to Democrats in particular, that they cannot do this to our country.’
It’s just the latest spat between a member of Donald Trump’s inner circle and the left
‘The problem is we win elections and we have these country-club Republicans, and we basically are the controlled opposition – even in power. My take is that if you’re going to keep this country together, start acting like you’re in charge,’ she said at the time.
Her spat with Griffith is the second time in recent days that Greene has condemned rhetoric on the left as going too far.
Ahead of Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania last weekend, Greene accused Biden of targeting her and ‘declaring war’ on Republicans for his verbal attacks on ‘MAGA Republicans.’
She said Biden and his party ‘are using their position of power and they have declared war on all of us because Joe Biden basically said in his speech that we’re the enemies of the state.’
‘He’s calling us extremists,’ Greene continued.
‘And so that’s a dog whistle for violence against MAGA Republicans and it is a continued dog whistle of violence against me.