Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged a male Republican acquired bodily aggressive together with her

In a personal assembly with Home Speaker Mike Johnson final week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused fellow Georgia Republican Rep. Richard McCormick of getting bodily aggressive together with her, in line with a number of sources acquainted with the matter – a cost that McCormick has denied, saying it was a “pleasant gesture.”

Greene claimed to Johnson that McCormick grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her following a public spat they’d over competing resolutions to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the sources stated, and requested the speaker to handle the difficulty. McCormick voted towards Greene’s censure decision after which launched his personal, extra slim model – which prompted Greene to say to reporters on the time that McCormick had his “ego bruised.” She additionally publicly bashed different Republicans who voted towards her decision.

In a press release offered to CNN, McCormick stated the interplay was supposed to be pleasant, however he apologized to the congresswoman within the second after realizing she didn’t obtain it that approach.

“I perceive why there can be lots of uncooked feelings following the censure vote provided that her censure was tabled and mine handed. My intention was to encourage Rep. Greene by making a pleasant gesture,” he stated in a press release. “I stated to her, ‘at the least we are able to have an trustworthy dialogue,’ to which she stated she didn’t recognize that. For that I instantly apologized and haven’t spoken to her since.”

Greene on Tuesday disputed to CNN that’s how the interplay occurred. Final week, she advised CNN she skilled a “critical” state of affairs with an unnamed male colleague, however declined to get into additional particulars.

CNN has reached out to the speaker’s workplace for remark.

Johnson has labored to handle the difficulty and reached out to McCormick to listen to his aspect of the story, sources stated, in simply one other instance of how the brand new speaker is having to handle the escalating tensions inside his divided convention.

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