‘Absolutely Outrageous!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages Over Arrest of Right-Wing Journalist in Portland

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Oct 3rd, 2025, 1:23 pm

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called the arrest of independent, right-wing journalist Nick Sortor in Portland Thursday night, where he was covering ICE protests after President Trump sent in troops, “absolutely outrageous.”

Sortor apparently got involved in his own story by having himself filmed stamping out an American flag that someone had set alight before he was arrested.

On Friday, Greene described the scene to Breanna Morello .

“It shows Nick actually taking the burning American flag and stomping it out,” Greene said. “And this is an executive order that the president signed that you cannot burn the American flag.

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