A video of Boebert recently surfaced in which the first-term lawmaker from Colorado claimed she was in a Capitol Hill elevator with Rep. Ilhan Omar and suggested a Capitol Police officer appeared concerned the Minnesota Democrat might be a terrorist.
“She doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine,” Boebert is heard saying in the video in an apparent reference to suicide bombings, aiming at what she called the “Jihad Squad,” a spin on a group of far-left House Democrats infamously referred to as "the Squad."
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Boebert initially tried to walk back the remarks when she came under fire but later defended them following a tense call with Omar. The Minnesota Democrat called on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to hold members of his party accountable for “repeated instances of anti-Muslim hate and harassment.”
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Mace then called out Boebert in a CNN interview over the comments. “I have time after time condemned my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for racist tropes and remarks that I find disgusting, and this is no different than any others,” Mace insisted.
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Greene later wrote on Twitter that Mace “is the trash in the GOP Conference.” “Never attacked by Democrats or RINO’s (same thing) because she is not conservative, she’s pro-abort,” Greene wrote, implying Mace should “back up off of [Boebert] or just go hang with your real gal pals, the Jihad Squad.”
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Greene then called Mace “out of your league,” introducing the slight with the wrong form of the term — a grammatical error Mace highlighted in her response.
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“And, while I’m correcting you, I’m a pro-life fiscal conservative who was attacked by the Left all weekend (as I often am) as I defied China while in Taiwan,” Mace wrote. “What I’m not is a religious bigot (or racist). You might want to try that over there in your little ‘league.’”
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The latest chapter of the social media war of words is a long-simmering feud between the two freshman lawmakers.
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Greene’s claim that Mace supports abortion is unsubstantiated. Anthony List says that she has “voted consistently to defend the lives of the unborn and infants.”
Mace’s CNN interview also drew attention because she made remarks about the COVID-19 vaccines that some say were contradictory to another interview she recently did with Fox News.
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Mace told CNN she has “been a proponent of vaccinations and wearing masks when we need to” but told Fox that policymakers have not “taken into account what natural immunity does.”
She later wrote in a tweet that the comments “are not mutually exclusive. Nor are they contradictory.”
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