Green (R-Ga.) blasted Maddow on Tuesday as part of the “godless lying left” for likening her to Gerald LK Smith, a self-styled “Christian nationalist” from the 1940s and ’50s. “Rachel Maddow smears me with lies about my faith and love for America and tries to hook me up with someone I’ve never heard of or know anything about,” Green wrote. The controversial congresswoman said Maddow is “being paid to lie about me by her hard-left employers at MSNBC.” “What a sad way to earn a paycheck,” Green tweeted about Maddow, who earns about $30 million a year from the Comcast-owned cable channel. Rachel Maddow smears me with lies about my faith and love for America and tries to hook me up with someone I’ve never heard of or know anything about. Actually being a Christian means I recognize that I am a sinner and my savior is a Jew named Jesus who I believe in..1/7 https://t.co/zlYwpvKnE0 — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 26, 2022 “Actually, being a Christian means I recognize that I am a sinner and my savior is a Jew named Jesus, who I believe is the son of God,” Green tweeted. “I also believe the word of God in the Bible, which is for the people of Israel and the gospel of Jesus Christ.” Greene denied that she harbors racist and anti-Semitic views, adding: “The spineless left has lied about me since day one and called me anti-Semitic, racist, fascist and even a Nazi, all of which are absolutely disgusting lies. my.” “But their problem is that most people see through their lies e.g. their empty words do not match the truth.’ “Yes, I am a Christian. I’m not perfect, I’m a sinner and I know I can never be perfect enough to go to heaven based on my actions alone,” Green wrote on Twitter. “I need a savior and his name is Jesus.” Greene hit back at Maddow’s monologue from her show Monday night, in which she named Greene as part of a movement within the “most tragic” faction of the Republican Party. Maddow’s segment compared Greene and Doug Mastriano, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, to Smith. Maddow on Monday compared Green to a “Christian nationalist” politician from the 1940s. NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Maddow played an excerpt from a speech by Smith in which he denounced the “minor forces” who were trying to “mix our race” and “enslave the white man.” The Post reached out to MSNBC for comment.
