RIGHT NOW: @RepMTG is apologizing for comments she made comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust. She said that her father taught her to take responsibility when she makes a mistake- and in this instance she made a mistake. 
.@RepMTG says that she visited the Holocaust museum and said she was learned more about the horrors of that period of time. She said there was “no comparisons to what happened there.”
I asked @RepMTG If this experience would lead her reject the disinformation spread by Qanon followers- some of which deny the Holocaust- she said she did not know of what information was spread by Q followers.
While Greene emphatically withdrew her comparison of mask mandates to the Holocaust, when pressed by @Bencjacobs she refused to take back comparing the modern Democratic Party to the National Socialist Party of the Nazi era.
Greene also refused to denounce President Trump’s rhetoric around the riots in Charlottesville when he suggested that there were good people on both sides.
Greene said the visit to the Holocaust museum was a good reminder for her- but that she said she has always known how awful that period of time was. She said she visited the Auschwitz concentration camp when she was 19.
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