Sky News reporter mocked for having a British accent by US congresswoman
A Trump-loving Republican congresswomen has told a British journalist to ‘go back to your country’ because her accent.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, from Georgia, ridiculed Sky News reporter Martha Kelner as soon as she caught wind of her British accent.
The 50-year-old Republican and Trump loyalist had just list a committee hearing on funding for public broadcasters when she began taking questions from reporters.
She was flooded with questions on the controversy over how a journalist was added to a group chat on air strikes in Yemen with top US officials.
When U.S. Correspondent Kelner decided to chip-in all hell broke loose.
‘Should the Defense Secretary—,’ she asked before Green, known as MTG, e interjected.
‘What country are you from?’ Greene asked as she rolled her eyes.
As sooner as Kelner answer ‘the U.K.’, MTG then ripped into the reporter saying: ‘Go back to your country.’
Greene continued her rant: ‘Okay, we don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting.
‘Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem.’
‘You should care about your own borders.’
Kelner then tried to shout over MTG to get her question asked.
She tried to question Greene: ‘Do you care about American lives being put at risk?’
But the Trump support screamed back: ‘I don’t care about your fake news.’
Greene then turned her attention to an American reporter, who wanted get an answer to Kelner’s question.
MTG refused to be drawn on this however, and so the American asked a similar question about the Signal chat scandal.
For the past two days, top White House officials have faced relentless pressure from lawmakers and the press on the scandal.
Questions have been asked about why President Donald Trump’s national security team was sharing sensitive information in an unsecure manner.
Once Greene was probed on this again, she launched another furious reply: ‘You want to know about complete disregard about operational security?
‘You should talk about the Biden administration and how they ripped our borders open to terrorists, cartel, child sex trafficking, human trafficking, and drug trafficking across our borders for four years.
Greene similarly told a British journalist to ‘go back to your country,’ in 2022.
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