- Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz say Trump shouldn't have canceled his Jan. 6 press conference.
- "Unfortunately, I think he got some bad advice in cancelling it," Greene said.
- They made the remarks at the end of their own conspiracy theory-laden press conference.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida said on Thursday that they wish former President Donald Trump hadn't canceled a press conference originally scheduled for the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection.
The remarks came in response to a question by Insider a press conference held by the two lawmakers, which they billed as a "Republican response" to the Capitol riot.
Insider asked the duo why their arguments about the events of that day — including suggestions that there may have been a '"fedsurrection" orchestrated by elements within the FBI — should be trusted over those made by Trump himself. The former president, for his part, has asserted that the riots were simply a "day of protesting the Fake Election" and that the "real insurrection happened on November 3rd."
"I don't think it's one or the other," Greene replied.
The congresswoman then went on to say that she and Gaetz disagreed with Trump's decision to cancel Thursday's press conference, which he was slated to hold at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
"We were both really looking forward to President Trump's press conference tonight," Greene said. "Unfortunately, I think he got some bad advice in canceling it. We wish that he had done that, so that people could've asked him these questions."
—bryan metzger (@metzgov) January 6, 2022
When Trump announced his press conference, he also aired grievances about both January 6 and the 2020 election. "Until then, remember, the insurrection took place on November 3rd, it was the completely unarmed protest of the rigged election that took place on January 6th," he said in a statement at the time.
Trump called off the press conference on Tuesday, saying he would be talking about the subject at an Arizona rally on January 15 instead. Legal experts told Insider that it would've been "boneheaded" to hold the event, given his ongoing legal woes.
At that same press conference, Gaetz and Greene condemned Sen. Ted Cruz for saying that the attacks last year constituted a "terrorist attack."
Asked by Insider whether either of them had talked to Trump about their unproven theories about January 6, Gaetz demurred.
"We don't talk about our conversations with the president with you guys under any circumstance," he said.