The brutal secret police of Nazi Germany that spied on and persecuted citizens was confused with a mild Mediterranean recipe by American congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a loyal supporter of Donald Trump.
In a gaffe during an interview on the show Real America with Dan Ball, the Republican-elect from the state of Georgia swapped Gestapo for gazpacho when criticizing the work of the United States House committee investigating the Capitol invasion, on January 6, 2021, by supporters of the former president.
“Now we have Nancy Pelosi’s ‘gazpacho police’ [presidente da Câmara, democrata] spying on members of Congress, the legislative work we do, our team, and spying on American citizens who want to come talk to their representatives,” the congresswoman said during this Tuesday’s edition (8) of the program.
“This government has turned into something it should never be, and it’s time to end it.” The video with the deputy’s confusion went viral on social media, more for the gaffe than for her arguments.
The Gestapo was part of the repressive apparatus of the German state during Adolf Hitler’s regime, from 1933 until the end of World War II, in 1945. It was a secret police that spied on, persecuted and arrested citizens suspected of conspiring against the government, without controls. legal or need for warrants.
Gazpacho is a cold tomato-based soup. Very popular in the Andalusia region of Spain, it takes cucumber, pepper and garlic.
This Wednesday, Taylor Greene commented on the case trying to joke with a new, shall we say, gastronomic pun for a nefarious element of 20th century wars. on your Twitter account. The reference to the soup with cubes of meat typical of Eastern Europe is intended to recall the gulags, forced labor camps for political prisoners in the Soviet Union.
In the same interview, the deputy also called the prison in the American capital, a few kilometers from the Capitol, where those convicted of the 2021 invasion are held.
Broadcast by One America News Network, a far-right and pro-Trump cable TV network, Real America opened the edition with an interview with the congresswoman, broadcasting a report on a man who was said to have been denied a kidney transplant because he was not vaccinated. against Covid. Subsequently, a report on the protest of truck drivers in Ottawa against restrictions imposed in Canada to stop the pandemic called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “tyrannical leader”.
The congressional committee criticized by the Republican was created to find those responsible for the attack on American democracy a year ago. Five people were killed and 140 police officers were injured in the raid.
The US newspaper The New York Times this month published a report showing that the collegiate body has used its powers “in expansive ways”, employing aggressive tactics, typically used in federal prosecutions against mobsters and terrorists, to try to pierce the armor of Donald Trump and his allies.
The group, led by a former federal prosecutor, has so far interviewed more than 475 witnesses and produced more than 100 subpoenas, including to banks, telecommunications companies and social networks — and which, according to the newspaper, swept away personal data from the Trump family and allies, local politicians and at least one republican parliamentarian.
This attempt to close the siege is on the part of Democratic congressmen, who are in a certain hurry because they want to complete the work before the November legislative elections, in which the minimal majorities of the party in both houses of Congress are threatened. Republicans, who opposed the commission’s creation, are seeking to regain control of the House and thus end the inquiry.
Representative Taylor Greene has already been punished by Congress for supporting conspiracy groups and endorsing acts of violence against congressmen, being removed from two committees to which she had been nominated by the Republican Party.
She is known for supporting QAnon, a conspiracy theory that says Trump was waging war against a network of child abusers. She later said she regretted this support, without apologizing for it. “I was led to believe things that weren’t true,” she said. “And I’m absolutely sorry. But the media is just as guilty as QAnon for promoting lies.”
Greene also had his personal Twitter account permanently suspended in January, on the grounds that he had repeatedly violated the social network’s Covid-19 disinformation policy. The representative also has access to another account, verified, where she has more than 400 thousand followers.
