Rep. Cori Bush says she's changing offices after being 'berated' in a hallway by a maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene

• A Democratic congresswoman is moving offices to get away from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• Rep. Cori Bush told Insider Friday that Greene and her staff "berated" her in a hallway.
• Greene's embrace of dangerous conspiracy theories have rankled her colleagues.

Rep. Cori Bush said on Friday she was changing offices after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene "berated" her and her staff in a hallway.

Bush, a freshman Democrat from Missouri, said in a tweet that she decided to move offices for the safety of her and her staff. Both Greene's and Bush's offices are on the ground floor of the Longworth House Office Building, according to the congresswomen's websites.

Greene, a Republican from Georgia, has rankled colleagues on both sides of the aisle by peddling dangerous conspiracy theories associated with the QAnon movement and refusing to wear a mask on Capitol Hill.

In a statement to Insider, Bush said the incident in question occurred on January 13 when she was walking to the floor to vote, one week after the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol. She said Greene "came up from behind" her "ranting loudly into her phone while not wearing a mask."

After Bush asked Greene to put on a mask, Bush said Greene "responded by berating her," with a member of Greene's staff telling her to "stop inciting violence with Black Lives Matter." Before being elected to Congress, Bush was a racial-justice and police-reform activist working in the St. Louis area.

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Bush said Congress should pass a resolution she introduced in the wake of the Capitol insurrection to investigate and potentially expel members like Greene who promoted former President Donald Trump's conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

In response, Greene accused Bush of lying, tweeting a video that she said showed their encounter. In the video, Greene was livestreaming into her phone with her mask pulled down. After someone shouted from down the hall asking Greene to wear a mask, Greene shouted back at Bush "don't yell at people" and "stop being a hypocrite." A Greene staffer could be heard making the "stop inciting violence" comment.

—Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) January 29, 2021

"This is arguing with my Democrat colleagues, supposed colleagues. This is how it is now in America. You're witnessing what we're having to live through," Greene says in the video.

Punchbowl News reported on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped in to get Bush moved to a new office after she was made aware of the altercation. Bush said in her statement to Insider that her office was being moved out of Longworth to a new building altogether.

A Pelosi aide told Insider that Bush's office-assignment change "was by the direct order of the Speaker upon request."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow progressive politician, tweeted in support of Bush and chided House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, saying he was "losing control of his caucus" and allowing threats to "go unchecked."

Bush's statement also cited a tweet posted on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in which she said Greene falsely accused her of "leading a mob" that called for violence.

In June, Bush was in a group of protesters who marched for police reform in an upscale part of St. Louis during nationwide demonstrations. The group was met by the wealthy lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who were photographed brandishing guns at the protesters and subsequently spoke at the Republican National Convention.

—Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) January 18, 2021

Greene won an August primary runoff in the open race for the deeply-Republican 14th Congressional District in northwest Georgia and easily won the general election, despite the concerns of some Republicans over her history of espousing racism, Islamophobia, and conspiracy theories affiliated with the wide-ranging QAnon movement.

New reporting from the liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America said Greene posted in support of false conspiracy theories that the 2012 school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the February 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, were staged by the government or "false flags."

Newly resurfaced video footage showed Greene berating and harassing the Parkland student and gun-control activist David Hogg as he was walking to the Capitol to meet with lawmakers in March 2019.

CNN recently reported on Facebook activity in which Greene had replied to and liked posts saying that FBI agents and top Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Pelosi, should be executed.

Media Matters also uncovered a lengthy 2018 Facebook post in which Greene invoked anti-Semitic tropes to suggest the deadly Camp Fire in California was caused by a laser from space possibly connected to Rothschild Inc.

"In the context of Taylor Greene's repeated endorsements of executing Democratic politicians before taking office, Taylor Greene's renewed, repeated antagonization of the movement for Black lives in the last month directed towards me personally is cause for serious concern," Bush said in her statement.

While McCarthy said he would have a "conversation" with Greene about her distributing social-media posts, she has not yet faced any kind of official punishment from her caucus.

Pelosi and other Democrats have slammed top Republicans for appointing Greene to the House Committee on Education and Labor, given her embrace of conspiracy theories around school shootings and her treatment of student gun-reform advocates.

Eliza Relman contributed reporting.

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