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  • CNN's review this week of hundreds of posts and comments from Greene's Facebook account from 2018 and 2019 -- before she was elected to Congress --revealed that she had repeatedly advocated executing prominent Democratic politicians.
  • "Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off."
  • Greene "liked" a comment that said "a bullet to the head would be quicker" to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other comments about executing so-called "deep state" FBI agents.
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  • In a way, her online behavior is less troubling than the fact that hundreds of her congressional Republican colleagues have stayed silent about it.
  • Senators have privately expressed "disdain" about Trump's conduct both in undermining the result of the 2020 election and in the run-up to the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol that put all of their lives in danger. Still, it is widely reported that they are concerned about how a vote to convict Trump might lead to a political backlash.
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