Marjorie Taylor Greene is pushing a new conspiracy theory.
The Georgia lawmaker claimed on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is using a police force dedicated to monitoring Spanish vegetable soup (typically served cold) to spy on members of Congress. The outlandish claim has no basis in fact.
“Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. gulag,” Greene said on right-wing network OAN. “But now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staffs, and spying on American citizens that want to come talk to their representatives.”
Just to clear things up, @RepMTG
Gazpacho: a vegetable-based Spanish cold soup
Gestapo: Nazi Germany’s secret police pic.twitter.com/T9q76r706G— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) February 9, 2022
It’s possible Greene meant to…
