Marjorie Taylor Greene at the RNC: “God’s hand” saved Trump

Among the speakers Monday night on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who thanked God for saving Donald Trump during the shooting at his rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. “Two days ago, evil came upon the man we admire and love so much. I thank God that his hand was upon President Trump,” Greene said, according to The Hill. The congresswoman noted that despite the “celebratory” moment of Trump officially becoming the Republican presidential nominee, it was also a “sombre moment for our nation.” She said she was praying for the rally attendee who was killed and the two injured who Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

She said the slain victim, Corey Comperatore, “embodied the spirit” of the America First movement by sacrificing himself to protect his family when shots were fired. And Trump, she said, was “the founding father of the America First movement,” which Time Reports are a somewhat controversial statement, as the phrase, which has been in use since World War II, has been associated with anti-Semitism and was used by the Ku Klux Klan. Two more quotes:

• Greene also criticized the Biden administration. “We will honor Corey’s memory by building the country he wanted, the country he wanted for his children, and a government worthy of the American people,” she said. “For far too long, the establishment in Washington has betrayed us. They promised unity and delivered division. They promised peace and delivered war. They promised normalcy and gave us Transgender Visibility Day on Easter Sunday.”
• Greene also said Trump will “make America successful again” and “will make us rich again,” PBS reports. “An American government that serves not the interests of the rich, the globalists or the powerful few, but of all hard-working Americans, is within our grasp,” she said.

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