Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed by The View's Joy Behar over apology for comparing Covid mask mandates to the Holocaust

THE View host Joy Behar mocked Marjorie Taylor Greene's apology for comparing Covid-19 mask mandates to the Holocaust, saying her statement is as "empty as her head."

Behar blasted the QAnon representative on Tuesday's episode – a day after Greene was forced to publicly apologize for her controversial comments.

“I don’t buy it, any of it. I think she’s full of it. She compares Democrats to Nazis by the way," Behar told her co-host Whoopi Goldberg.

“She says she’s apologizing, but then she says Democrats are Nazis, which shows you she has no concept of what Nazis actually did.

"So I think that her apology is as empty as her head," Behar added, before Ana Navarro waded into the debate, describing Greene as "a banshee that will do anything to get attention."

“If you are learning about the Holocaust at almost 50 years of age, you’ve got a real problem," Navarro added.

"You are not fit to be in congress if you lack that much knowledge of history, and one of the worst events in human history.”

Their televised rant about the Georgia congresswoman comes after Greene held a press briefing on Monday outside the Holocaust museum, acknowledging that “over six million Jewish people were murdered."

Greene had been slammed by both Democrats and Republicans last month after she said forcing masks or vaccines was like forcing Jewish people to wear stars in Nazi Germany.

Despite doubling down on her position after making the comments, Greene issued an apology while speaking to reporters outside of the nation's Capitol on Monday.

"I'm truly sorry for offending people with remarks about the Holocaust," Greene said."There's no comparison and there never ever will be."

“There is no comparison to the holocaust, and there are words that I have said and remarks that I have made that I know are offensive, and for that, I want to apologize."

Greene was slammed after she made the comments during the appearance on the conservative cable network Real America’s Voice in May.

The rep also accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being "mentally ill" while ripping Covid-19 restrictions.

"You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens," she said.

"So much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.

"This is exactly the type of abuse Nancy Pelosi is talking about."

Her reference to Jews wearing a "gold star" referred to the millions who were forced to wear a Star of David on their clothes before being sent to concentration camps and murdered during World War II.

Initially, Greene doubled down on her offensive statements before her apology yesterday, previously telling KPNX: "I stand by all of my statements, I said nothing wrong.

"I think any rational Jewish person didn't like what happened in Nazi Germany & any rational Jewish person doesn't like what's happening with overbearing mask mandates and overbearing vaccine policies."

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