Every once in a while, a person has a “tell” so pronounced that they give their culpability away. Like someone insisting, “No, I didn’t do that” – and then they suddenly start blinking rapidly and twitching their body. Both Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) had their “Okay, yes, I’m really very guilty” twitches the other day.
In the case of Brooks, he was talking with CNN reporter Melanie Zanona and insisted that he had “no involvement” in planning the rally in Washington on January 6. However, his lips kept moving and then added, “I don’t know if my staff did, but if they did I’d be proud of them for helping to put together a rally lawful under the First Amendment at the ellipse to protest voter fraud and election theft." Ah, the Sgt. Schultz Defense from Hogan’s Heroes, "I know nothing, noothhhing." While blaming it all on his staff. I’m sure they’ll love that, as he fritters away his Staff Loyalty Points that dwindle away before your very eyes. So, let’s see...Brooks is saying – between blinks and twitches – that he, a United States Congressman, has a staff so out of control that they helped plan the January 6 rally that lead to in insurrection under his very nose and he was totally unaware of their actions. And…and then, after 11 months, Brooks STILL "doesn't know" if his staff helped plan the Jan. 6 rally??! Amid all the news stories ever day for almost a full year, as the House of Representatives have been holding hearings on the rally and its subsequent insurrection, while the Department of Justice has been arrested people who participated – many of whom have been convicted and jailed – Rep. Mo Brooks never has yet found out if his staff helped plan that rally, where a hangman’s noose was put up, cries to kill Vice President Mike Pence and which lead to the storming of the Capital. AND, while supposedly not knowing if his own staff was involved, Mo Brooks still threw them under the bus by suggesting that they might have helped plan it!! And to add even more perspective to Mo Brooks using pantomime to tell the world he was involved, keep in mind that Brooks has previously acknowledged that he knew that things could get so violent on Jan. 6 at the rally that he put on body armor under his jacket before he himself got up before the crowd and spoke to him. But no, he had no involvement planning the “lawful” rally that lead to the insurrection. And doesn’t know if maybe his staff did – but suggests that maybe, possibly, conceivably they did. Meanwhile, he just happened to be strolling down the avenue on January 6, wearing his body armor, saw a crowd of tourists, and being a Congressman decided he couldn’t pass up talking to a crowd – which he admits he knew could be violent. “I don’t know if my staff did,” says Mo Brooks, “but if they did…” Man, just reading his words you can see the eyes blinking and body convulsing. “I don’t know if my staff did.” Well…okay, fine, then, if Mo Brooks isn’t up to finding out, happily there a House Select Committee already in place who would be happy to take on the responsibility. And so, they should just subpoena his ace staff and ask them, under oath, about their planning the January 6 rally without approval from their boss, since he now has said they may have done so – and kept it hidden from him. Though he did at least concede that he knew later, somehow, that it could become violent. Cue the eyes blinking – violently. In the case of Marjorie Taylor Greene, her “tell” was less performance art and much more literal. Actually, “much more literal” doesn’t do it justice. As far as “tells” go, she actually told. Talking with CNN’s Melanie Zanona, as well, the reporter say that Greene also denied (of course…) that she was involved at all in any planning of the rally, saying that the "only thing" she was "very involved in" was objecting to the election results on Jan. 6. (Greene then tried to deflect attention from the Rolling Stone article which provided evidence of her involvement and added: "Shouldn’t they cover music?" Her denial would be such a definitive statement...if only there wasn't video of Marjorie Taylor Greene leaving the White House in late December and saying to reporters that she just had a "great planning session for our January 6th objection." That, in the world of “tells” is telling it bluntly. By the way, how do we know of this video of her telling us about her planning? Greene herself posted it on her Twitter feed at the time. Oh, and just to fill things out properly -- P.S. Rolling Stone has covered politics for 54 years. To paraphrase Marjorie Taylor Greene -- Shouldn't she know that? And as the expression goes – cue the video.
Yes, there is Marjorie Taylor Greene herself telling us all right to the camera proudly that she and the White House planned their “January 6th objection.” Before her now saying, oh, er, no, um, no, she wasn’t involved with planning it at all.
At least she didn’t try to fob it off on her staff. But then that would have been tricky, since she already told her it was her.
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