Michael Steele on Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘Just shut the hell up’

Former Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele unloaded on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday, saying that the controversial firebrand congresswoman must ‘“simply shut the hell up.”

In an interview on MSNBC’s “The eleventh Hour,” Steele rebuked Greene for calling for a “nationwide divorce” that may separate the nation into crimson states and blue states. He mentioned that Greene had change into a humiliating weight on the GOP who must rethink her place. 

“She has no clue what the hell she’s speaking about,” Steele mentioned. “Why can we hearken to this loopy idiot? Marjorie Taylor Greene, please simply shut the hell up. Do us all a favor. You might be a humiliation to the Republican Get together and to the nation as a congresswoman.”

“We fought that warfare,” he added. “A Republican president misplaced his life over attempting to save lots of the union, and this idiot desires to separate it? So, right here we go. That is the form of loopy that requires a whole lot of heavy considering, as a result of she isn’t.”

Steele, who helmed the RNC from 2009 till 2011, has been fiercely crucial of former President Donald Trump and like-minded politicians, like Greene, for years, and publicly supported President Biden within the 2020 presidential election.

His remarks on Thursday got here as Greene continues to push her proposal for a “nationwide divorce,” which, in response to Greene, would drastically cut back the scale of the federal authorities, separate states by political ideology and permit them to pursue their very own coverage agendas freed from federal interference. 

Whereas she has insisted that she isn’t calling for “civil warfare,” her feedback have drawn fierce criticism from each Democrats and lots of Republicans, who’ve accused Greene of looking for to additional divide the nation and encourage secessionism – a sore level for a rustic that fought a bloody civil warfare after 11 states sought to go away the union in 1860s.