Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, has promised "investigations" for corporations that stopped donating to GOP politicians who supported former President Donald Trump's claims of a "stolen" 2020 election.
Greene said during a Wednesday appearance on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's War Room podcast that, should Republicans regain control of the House following next month's midterms, GOP representatives would target corporate donors that refused to continue financial support to those who supported claims of massive fraud in the last presidential election.
The congresswoman was among the majority of House Republicans who voted against certifying President Joe Biden's victory during the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021—when an angry mob of Trump supporters who believed the former president's election fraud claims breached the Capitol in an ill-fated attempt to stop the certification.
Greene said that it was "ridiculous and wrong" for companies and lobbyists to stop donating to Republicans after the insurrection, suggesting that GOP politicians would pursue revenge after Bannon asked her whether corporations needed to "fear" a "populist House."
"Let's just put it like this," Greene responded. "You know what they did after January 6th, Steve? They stopped donating—all the lobbyists, all the big corporations stopped donating to a whole bunch of my Republican colleagues that they used to donate to. They said, 'oh no, we can't support you because of the big lie,' or whatever they want to call it."
"That's not going to be forgotten by a whole bunch of my Republican colleagues, because that was really ridiculous and wrong," she continued. "There is going to be investigations coming. And there should be, because the way corporations have conducted themselves ... I've always called it corporate communism."
Greene went on to say that corporations "probably should get a lawyer." She urged them to stay out of politics and focus solely "on customer service."
The congresswoman argued that "half" of the country was "sick and tired" of "woke corporations," which she predicted would eventually be vanquished by a "patriot economy."
The nature of the congressional investigations that Greene has predicted is unclear. Corporations and lobbyists do not have any legal obligations to donate to any particular politicians or political candidates.
Greene said that she would not personally be impacted by the investigations because she does not "take any corporate money" or "lobbyist money" and was instead "supported by the American people."
According to OpenSecrets.Org, top donors to Greene's campaign in 2021 and 2022 included conservative PAC House Freedom Fund, DTS Incorporated of South Carolina and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
However, the site stipulates that "the organizations themselves did not donate" to the campaign, with the money coming from "their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families."
Newsweek has reached out to Greene's office for comment.
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