Marjorie Taylor Greene led delegation to visit Capitol attack defendants in jail

Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, pictured at the 2023 State of the Union address, were part of the congressional delegation to visit January 6 Capitol attack defendants. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

A jail in Washington has become the latest focal point of the US culture wars after a congressional delegation led by the Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene visited defendants charged in 2021’s deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and championed them as “political prisoners”.

Greene high-fived the detainees and shook their hands, according to the Associated Press. As the tour group was leaving, the defendants chanted “Let’s go Brandon!”, an offensive phrase denigrating Democratic president Joe Biden.