Marjorie Taylor Greene, the pro-Trump Republican congresswoman from Georgia, used a debate appearance to shirk responsibility for her part in the events that led to the deadly riot at the US Capitol on 6 January last year, making the astonishing claim that she was a “victim” of the plot to overturn the presdential election.
Reacting to opponent Marcus Flowers referencing her support for the “Stop the Steal” movement, which argued that widespread fraud at the ballot box had swung the outcome for Joe Biden and cost Donald Trump a second term, and her advocacy for people who were arrested and placed in pretrial detention for assaulting police and other violent crimes during the events of that infamous day, the first-term representative insisted she was in fact a victim of the riot, not an instigator
