"Fuentes, who blatantly espouses anti-Semitic rhetoric, skyrocketed into prominence in October after his controversial interview with Tucker Carlson. Greene was criticized in 2022 for her speech to the America First Political Action Conference, an event which was organized by Fuentes. In 2022, you did speak at a conference organized by Nick Fuentes. He's a white nationalist. He recently said that Hitler is, quote, Cool.' Let me ask you about your perspective right now, said Welker Do you believe there is room in the Republican Party for Nick Fuentes and anyone who shares that ideology, that Hitler is cool?"
"Here's my situation and here's my belief on people's speech. I will always defend the First Amendment and free speech, no matter what kind of speech it is. Even speech that I find abhorrent or I disagree with, because I think that makes us uniquely American, she said. She continued: What concerns me is that when we move towards censorship, and we saw that happen during COVID, I myself had my own Twitter account permanently banned because I spoke out against FDA's rushed approval of the COVID vaccines. And I spoke out against lockdowns and forced masking. And, you know, when I look at people saying that certain types of speech needs to be censored, and we have been hearing that lately, that raises great concern for me. So I think it's something that we have to take seriously is as Americans, we don't have to agree with each other and we certainly can disagree, but we should overwhelmingly agree that free speech must"
Marjorie Taylor Greene was confronted over past comments comparing masking mandates to Nazi Germany and her 2022 appearance at an America First conference organized by Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes espouses anti‑Semitic rhetoric and rose in prominence after an October interview with Tucker Carlson. NBC's Kristen Welker asked whether there is room in the Republican Party for Fuentes and those who praise Hitler. Greene defended the First Amendment and argued that all speech, even abhorrent speech, should be protected. She cited a permanent Twitter ban after criticizing COVID vaccine approval and masking as an example of concerning censorship trends.
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