The Soup Cops are coming!
(Trademark pending, Dick Wolf! No Law & Order: Soup Cops for you!)
Since her election to the House of Representatives in November 2020, Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene has made a name for herself, for better or worse, as one of the nation’s leading purveyor of conspiracy theories, ideas she usually makes known very angrily.
And sometimes anger can make even the most velvety-tongued wordsmiths misspeak.
That appears to be what happened during Greene’s Tuesday appearance on “Real America,” a program that airs on the One America News Network (OANN).
“Now we have Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens,” Greene said.
The clip of Greene confusing the Nazi Gestapo with a chilled Spanish tomato soup quickly became a viral sensation on Wednesday for all the wrong reasons, leading to a bevy of ridicule for Greene, who was trying to impart her theory that the Capitol Police secretly work for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Nancy Pelosi is using them like political pawns, sending them into our offices. None of us know — have they been in our offices at night? We don't know, but probably,” Greene said. “They're going after all of us.”
Greene was referencing an accusation by a fellow Republican, Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas, who alleged on Twitter that on November 20, Capitol Police were in his office “without my knowledge and photographed confidential legislative products.”
Nehls then said “three intelligence officers attempted to enter my office while the House was in recess” just days later to ask about something that had been allegedly photographed.
Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said that a “vigilant” officer was indeed in Nehls’s office because Nehls left his door open after hours.
“If a Member’s office is left open and unsecured, without anyone inside the office, USCP officers are directed to document that and secure the office to ensure nobody can wander in and steal or do anything else nefarious,” Manger said. Capitol Police then “followed up with the Congressman’s staff and determined no investigation or further action of any kind was needed.”
But obviously, Greene doesn’t trust that explanation just as she doesn’t trust Pelosi with her sensitive political documents. Or with her lunch.
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