✅ In a speech on June 9, 2022, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Jan. 6 Capitol attack defendants were having their rights “fragrantly” violated. (Greene misspoke and clearly intended to use the word “flagrantly.')
, D-N.Y., contained the caption, “hate it when my rights are fragrantly [sic] violated,” and appeared to show Greene at one point during a speech on the House floor say, “And why their due process rights are being so fragrantly and horrifically violated?” The clip was viewed nearly 5 million times in one day.
That footage was authentic and not the result of digital manipulation. As a result, we are issuing a rating of “Correct Attribution.”, Greene did indeed incorrectly use the word “fragrantly” to describe what she presented as violations of the rights of Jan. 6 defendants. A transcript of the relevant section of her remarks is below:
You know what else we don’t hear enough about? We do not understand what is happening to the over 800 people whobeen arrested and charged for the events on Jan. 6. We don’t know what is happening to them, and there are dozens of them right here in this city, wasting away in the D.C. jail, being treated like political prisoners of war. And you know what? This is before they have been convicted of anything.
They are there pre-trial, and no one cares about them. No one on this Jan. 6 committee dares to ask a question, what is happening to these people, and why their due process rights are being so fragrantly [sic] and horrifically violated, pre-trial? Pre-trial, they are sitting in that jail.the Latin verb “fragrare” — to emit a strong and pleasant odor.
Presumably, Greene instead intended to use the word “flagrantly,” the adverbial form of “flagrant” — an adjective that means obvious, emphatic, or blatant and typically describes an offense or wrong. For example, U.S. President
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