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| - US House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized Friday for embracing "wrong" QAnon conspiracies, but insisted she remains loyal to Donald Trump and warned the party will suffer if it betrays her or the former president. "Republican voters support him still, the party is his," the first-term congresswoman from Georgia said at a press conference steps from the US Capitol. "It doesn't belong to anybody else." Greene was removed from two House committees Thursday over her extremist rhetoric, with a handful of Republicans joining Democrats in voting her off the education and budget panels. The drama is at the heart of Republicans' collective anxiety over their party's future direction as they seek to win back the majority in Congress in two years. Many in more traditional circles are eager to move on from Trump, but the base is still voicing fealty to the ex-president. The 46-year-old Greene faced opprobrium for spreading misinformation she claims she found on the internet and the web of violent conspiracy-mongering known as QAnon, as well as for her endorsement of social media posts advocating the assassination of Democratic lawmakers. "I'm sorry for saying all those things that are wrong and offensive. And I sincerely mean that," she said. But Greene refused to apologize for harassing teenage school shooting survivor David Hogg, a 2019 incident captured in a video that she posted online before running for Congress. "No, I'm not sorry for telling him he shouldn't push for gun control," Greene said. She argued that neither she nor Trump bore any responsibility for the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, despite their repeated calls for supporters to go to Congress to save the nation. "Everyone here knows that he did not cause the attack on the Capitol, nor did I," Greene added. "Responsibility falls squarely on those that invaded the Capitol." She also blasted the Senate's "circus" impeachment trial set for next week on charges that Trump incited the insurrection. As for the 11 Republicans who voted to strip her committee assignments, Greene's message was clear. "Voting against one of their own... really is a big betrayal, and that could cost us the majority in '22," she said. "The base is loyal to president Trump and the base has been very loyal to me." mlm/dw
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