American politician Marjorie Taylor Greene told a British reporter to “go back to your country” in an extraordinary exchange at a press conference.
The far-right Republican representative from Georgia was asked by Martha Kelner from Sky News about the accidental leak of military plans to a magazine journalist in a Signal group chat.
As she began to ask her question, Ms Taylor Greene interrupted the reporter and demanded to know: “What country are you from?”
After hearing that Ms Kelner was British, Ms Taylor Greene responded: “We don’t give a cr-p about your opinion and your reporting. Why don’t you go back to your country?
“You should care about your own borders. Let me tell you something, do you care about people from your country?
“What about all the women that are raped by migrants… do you care?”
Ms Taylor Greene refused to answer the question and eventually turned to a journalist who identified himself as American.
The Trump administration has spent days fielding questions over the leak of the messages by the Atlantic magazine, one of the most extraordinary security blunders in recent memory.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor, revealed earlier this week that he had inadvertently been added to the group by National Security Adviser Waltz.
The group discussed plans for US military strikes on Houthi fighters in Yemen, who have attacked vessels using key shipping routes of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The White House has downplayed the severity of the leak, with spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt calling Mr Goldberg a "Trump-hater" and insisting that the messages did not contain classified information.
But a screenshot of the text chat released by The Atlantic showed that US defence secretary Pete Hegseth texted the start time for a planned killing of a Houthi militant in Yemen on March 15 as well as other details of imminent waves of US strikes.
Ms Taylor Greene’s outburst is not the first time that she has clashed with the British press.
Last year, she told the News Agents presenter Emily Maitlis to “f*** off” when challenged over her frequent repetition of conspiracy theories.
