Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has come to the defense of the “white, male, christian” man suspected of leaking dozens of highly classified Pentagon documents.
Jack Teixeira, 21, joined the Massachusetts Air National Guard in 2019, serving as a cybersecurity systems journeyman. Teixeira obtained access to the highest level of classified information on issues from U.S. infiltration of Russian intelligence services to strained Ukrainian air defenses, which he allegedly posted online.
The Georgia firebrand's defense of the young guardsman came shortly after his arrest and hours before his appearance in Boston's federal courthouse.
“Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime,” Greene said on Twitter:
“Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?”
“They couldn't find the Supreme Court leaker who put Supreme Court Justices lives in danger, but magically, they can find 21-year-old low level National Guardsman “responsible” for exposing the truth about Ukraine,” she added.
Critics from the left and right responded that the guardsman's race and religion weren't a factor in his arrest; breaking his enlistment oath and providing aid and comfort to the enemy was. Calls for Greene's removal from the Committee on Homeland Security spread rapidly.
She received support from Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said the leaks prove U.S. troops are “fighting Russian soldiers.” Carlson didn't provide evidence to back that claim.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hasn't commented on the controversy.
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I don’t doubt there are but a few who aren’t crooked in the current government….from the top down.
We know one thing for sure,u can’t believe a dam thing, this government tells us.They have been lying to us from the beginning, about the war,now were told american troops been there all along.This narcistic,delusional,incompetent,embarrassing,failure of a president needs to be removed, for total deriliction,in the war.
Biden has committed TREASON
I’d agree that he and others SHOULD be charged with TREASON, but unfortunately, they CAN NOT be. The reason is that the SCOTUS ruled in Cramer v. United States, 325 U.S. 1 (1945) that TREASON could only be committed during a constitutionally DECLARED war. The Court also narrowly defined treason in Ex parte Bollman & Swarthout (1807).
Now, I disagree with the Cramer decision, however, it is the law due to the SCOTUS ruling des[ite the harm that could occur, and HARM has occurred. So what charge or charges are relevant to what many of our leaders like Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Panetta, and others have done? I believe that they could well be charged with sedition. It too carries harsh penalties, which I believe are needed in order to get the attention of our corrupt seditious leaders.
Sounds like another set up to me. I put the entire blame on the Pentagon, the entire Pentagon needs investagated who gives a young man that much security clearance? Something rotten in Denmark and the pentagon.
What do you mean – “Carlson didn’t provide evidence to back that claim”? Tucker didn’t have to – the evidence is in the leaked documents.
EXACTLY! Just more jaundiced urinalism!
Bad optics MTG Bad Optics
It sounded to me that MTG was attacking the feckless Biden regime, rather than defending the leaker to any real extent.
Castration, fry ’em, and make him eat ’em.
Greene is so sweet. Hits the nail on the head. God Bless Her Intelligence and Energy.