Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses David Cameron of calling Republicans ‘Hitler’ as she doubles down on row

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Marjorie Taylor Greene has doubled down on her mistaken assertion that British Foreign Secretary David Cameron in contrast Republicans unwilling to assist additional support to Ukraine to Nazi chief Adolf Hitler.

“Well, number one, I really could care less what Lord Cameron has to say. I just don’t care,” she advised The Independent on Thursday. “And number two, he was calling us Hitler and calling us horrible names and that is extremely rude and he needs to stop making that association.

“He needs to consider what he’s actually saying,” she added. “So I just don’t care. He really needs to worry about his country. I think over there, they’re having all kinds of problems, they’re entering a recession. They need to worry about their problems and leave our country alone.”

This comes after the hard-right Republican congresswoman mentioned Lord Cameron “can kiss my a**” on Wednesday after he urged the US Congress to go support to Ukraine and keep away from repeating the errors of the previous, citing the appeasement of Hitler within the lead-up to the Second World War.

The Democratic Senate has already handed a invoice which might ship additional support to Ukraine however the laws faces a steep uphill climb within the House.

In an op-ed printed in The Hill on Wednesday, Lord Cameron wrote: “As Congress debates and votes on this funding package for Ukraine, I am going to drop all diplomatic niceties. I urge Congress to pass it.

“I believe our joint history shows the folly of giving in to tyrants in Europe who believe in redrawing boundaries by force,” he added. “I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s. He came back for more, costing us far more lives to stop his aggression.

“I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Putin in 2008, when he invaded Georgia, or the uncertainty of the response in 2014, when he took Crimea and much of the Donbas — before coming back to cost us far more with his aggression in 2022,” Lord Cameron, a former UK prime minister, argued. “I want us to show the strength displayed since 2022, as the West has helped Ukrainians liberate half the territory seized by Putin, all without the loss of any NATO service personnel.”

“I don’t want to read it, I know the British embassy wanted me to read it – I have way too many other things to do than read his op-ed,” Ms Greene mentioned on Thursday.

James Matthews of Sky News requested Ms Greene on Wednesday: “David Cameron says that you should vote through funding for Ukraine. What do you say to that?”

“I think he tried to compare us to Hitler also,” Ms Greene mentioned, mixing up the appeasers, whose conduct Lord Cameron did cite, and the Nazi chief.

Ms Greene has beforehand confronted criticism for making feedback evaluating the use of masks throughout the pandemic to the Holocaust. She later visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC and apologised for the remarks.

Speaking about Lord Cameron on Wednesday, Ms Greene advised Sky News: “If that’s the kind of language he wants to use, I really have nothing to say to him.”

“He likened you can do to an appeaser for Hitler, in not voting through funding for Ukraine, are you an appeaser for Putin?” Matthews requested.

“I think that I really don’t care what David Cameron has to say. I think that’s rude name-calling, and I don’t appreciate that type of language. And David Cameron needs to worry about his own country, and frankly, he can kiss my a**,” she added.

During a go to to Poland on Thursday, the international secretary mentioned that he’s not somebody who needs “to lecture American friends, or tell American friends what to do”, however he added, “We really do want to see Congress pass that money to support Ukraine economically, but crucially militarily in the months ahead.”

Speaking at a press convention, Lord Cameron mentioned: “We have to do everything we can to make sure that Ukraine can succeed in this year and beyond.

“We must not let Putin think he can out-wait us or last us out, and that’s why this vote in Congress is so crucial.”

He added: “And I say this as someone who is not wanting in any way to lecture American friends, or tell American friends what to do.

“I say it as someone who has a deep and abiding love of the United States – of their democracy, of their belief in freedom – [and] as someone who really believes in the importance of our alliance.”