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‘Gazpacho police’: Nazi gaffe lands Republican congresswoman in the soup

Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Nancy Pelosi of some sort of consommé-based reign of terror.
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Nancy Pelosi of some sort of consommé-based reign of terror. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The extremist Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene triggered a wave of viral jokes on Wednesday after ranting about the “gazpacho police” patrolling the Capitol building in Washington DC.

Greene was apparently mixing up the famously cold Spanish soup gazpacho with the Gestapo – the brutal Nazi-era secret police in Germany.

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