His comments came after Greene and Arizona Representative Paul Gosar spoke at the America First Political Action Conference over the weekend conference in Florida. McConnell told journalist Jake Sherman, co-founder of Punchbowl News, that he planned on meeting with Greene this week. The House minority leader also called Greene’s participation in the rally “appalling and wrong.”
“Last week, I was just in Israel,” McCarthy said, according to Sherman. “When I come back, I see two colleagues who went and participated with a group that has a leader that many times gives antisemitic views and led a chant for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. For me it was appalling and wrong. And there’s no place in our party for any of this.”
The Orlando, Florida, conference was organized by Nick Fuentes, a right-wing media figure whom the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has labeled a white supremacist.
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