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- Marjorie Taylor Greene ripped into Lauren Boebert on Monday, saying she acted “childishly.”
- Greene reacted to Boebert’s refusal to endorse her choice of Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House.
- Boebert hearkened back to Greene’s infamous “space lasers” Facebook post in her refusal.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked fellow MAGA Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert on Monday, accusing her of engaging in petty feuding, while also taking a swipe at her narrow margin of re-election.
Greene’s ire was stoked by a video showing Boebert with Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk at its “AmericaFest” event.
Kirk asked Boebert and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, also listed as a speaker at the event, what they thought of Greene’s endorsement of Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be the next House speaker.
Neither Gaetz nor Boebert were fans of the idea. While Gaetz politely disagreed, Boebert was more personal.
“Well you know, I’ve been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in,” said Boebert. “I don’t believe in this, just like I don’t believe in Russian space lasers, Jewish space lasers and all of this.”
The remark was a reference to a since-deleted 2018 Facebook post in which Greene speculated that that year’s wildfires in California were caused by lasers controlled by politicians and Jewish bankers.
Greene took exception, and responded to Boebert by tweeting the clip while noting that the congresswoman “just barely came through by 500 votes” in the 2022 midterms despite support from Greene, former President Donald Trump, and McCarthy.
—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2022
Boebert survived an extraordinarily tight race for Colorado’s Third Congressional District in the midterms.
The contest was close enough to prompt a legally-required recount, which confirmed that she won by 546 votes.
In her thread, Greene complained that Boebert didn’t endorse Trump or McCarthy even after she “gladly takes our $$$” in getting re-elected.
“And she childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite,” Greene added, in a likely reference to Boebert’s “space lasers” quip.
“Americans expect conservative fighters like us to work together to Save America and that is the only mission I’m 100% devoted to, not high school drama and media sound bites,” Greene said in a third tweet.
—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2022
Boebert did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Boebert, Greene and Gaetz — who all sit to the far right of the Republican Party — have long been grouped together, but reports emerged in April of a rift between Greene and Boebert.
Politico reported that the pair got into a heated debate over Greene’s attendance, in February, of a white nationalist-organized event. According to the outlet, Boebert dislikes being associated with Greene.
