Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has revealed she has not had the shot and slammed 'vaccine Nazis' for 'ruining our country' - months after apologizing for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust.
'They're ruining our country, these vaccine Nazis,' Greene told Steve Bannon's War Room podcast.
'I'm sorry. I know I'm using the word Nazi and everybody gets mad when I say it, but that's exactly what they are,' the 47-year-old added.
The Nazi analogy comes just four months after she made a grovelling apology outside the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. following a comparison she made between mask and vaccine mandates and the Third Reich forcing Jews to wear the yellow star.
Greene, who has been fined $48,000 by the House sergeant-at-arms for refusing to wear a face covering on at least 20 occasions, also told Bannon she has not been vaccinated against Covid-19.
'They're ruining our country, these vaccine Nazis,' Greene told Steve Bannon's War Room podcast on Tuesday
Asked on Tuesday by Bannon whether the vaccine mandates showed 'the fascism of the elites,' she did not shrink from Third Reich comparisons 'They are the fascists. They have called us fascists and have called us Nazis for like five years now, and I'm fed up with it, because that's exactly who they are,' Greene said. 'They are the Nazis!'
'You want to know something, Steve? I'm not vaccinated. I'm not vaccinated, and I'm not getting the vaccine because I'm an American. I can choose what I want to do with my body. I have the freedom to decide if I want to get a vaccine or not get a vaccine. I do not care who tells me to get one,' she said, describing her fury that federal employees faced losing their jobs over refusing the jab.
'I am a member of Congress, and guess what, no one is firing me for not being vaccinated, but all of these amazing first responders ... are being fired,' she said. 'I am so done with it.'
In May, Greene compared vaccine passports and mask mandates to how Jewish people were forced to wear the Star of David by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The comments drew condemnation from both sides of aisle, including the Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy who called them 'appalling.'
A month later Greene made a rare apology after visiting the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
'There is no comparison to the Holocaust,' she said. 'And there are words that I have said in remarks that I've made that I know are offensive, and for that, I want to apologize.'
But asked on Tuesday by Bannon whether the vaccine mandates showed 'the fascism of the elites,' she did not shrink from Third Reich comparisons
'They are the fascists. They have called us fascists and have called us Nazis for like five years now, and I'm fed up with it, because that's exactly who they are,' Greene said. 'They are the Nazis!'
Marjorie Taylor Greene on June 14 (pictured) stood before the U.S. Capitol and apologized for her May 20 remarks, in which she likened mask mandates to the Holocaust
Prior to the podcast Greene had refused to answer reporters who asked her about her vaccination status, telling them it is a 'violation of my HIPAA rights.'
It's not the first time since her apology in June that she has returned to Nazi analogies.
In July, she tweeted that people should be able to choose whether to have the Covid vaccine and did not need 'medical brown shirts' banging on their doors.
The brownshirts, officially known as the Sturmabteilung (SA), were a paramilitary wing of the Nazi party which acted as Adolf Hitler's henchmen during his rise to power in the 1920s and '30s.
They were deployed to violently disrupt opposition rallies and to intimidate Jewish business owners, most infamously on Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.
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