Chris Wallace calls on Republicans for ‘more visible outrage’ at Cheney than Greene

Fox News Sunday Anchor Chris Wallace called on Republican lawmakers for showing “more visible outrage” at Wyoming’s GOP Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump than at promoting the new Rep. GOP in Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, for promoting bizarre conspiracy theories.

Some pro-Trump Republicans in the House of Representatives have called for Cheney to be impeached from her No. 3 leadership position as Speaker of the House Republican Conference after her impeachment vote on Jan. 13. Meanwhile, few GOP lawmakers have expressed public outrage over multiple reports of Greene’s past promotion of unfounded conspiracy theories and his support for violence against his fellow lawmakers on social media.

“You have a situation right now where outrage is more visible within the GOP against Liz Cheney, member of [Republican] leadership voting to remove the [former] president on – rather than some of those savage conspiracy theories adopted by Marjorie Taylor Greene, ”Wallace pointed out on his Sunday show.

He suggested Republicans should take action against Greene and asked if she should potentially be kicked out of Congress or removed from committees.

“What are their options here?” Wallace asked panelist Susan Page, Washington bureau chief USA today. “I think that tells you a lot about where the Republican Party is right now,” Page replied.

GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is planning to meet with Greene about his inflammatory social media posts and bizarre claims. “These comments are deeply disturbing and Chief McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the MP about them,” Mark Bednar, a spokesperson for McCarthy, told Axios last week.

Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who joined the other nine House Republicans in voting to impeach Trump, said on Sunday he would support Greene’s removal from committee appointments, but he objected to his total expulsion from Congress.

“I would definitely vote it out of the committee. In terms of eviction, I’m not sure because I’m a little bit in the middle. I think a district has every right to put whoever it wants,” said Kinzinger on NBC News’ Meet the press. “But we have every right to take a stand and say, ‘You don’t get a committee.’ And we absolutely have to.”

Newsweek contacted McCarthy’s press representatives for further comment, but they did not immediately respond. A spokesperson for Greene said Newsweek in an email that she was traveling and would not immediately be able to provide a comment.

She tweeted on Sunday, however, writing, “The radical Democratic mob and their spokespersons in Fake News Media are trying to get me out because I refuse to apologize for our America First values.”

CNN first reported last week that Greene has repeatedly indicated that she supports the execution of prominent Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, via social media. Media Matters for America also reported that Greene suggested in a 2018 Facebook post that a California wildfire was started by a laser from space. The congressman also adopted baseless conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as various mass shootings in the United States in recent years.