From
the NY Times this excellent piece on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
– the wildest conspiracy nut ever and now in Congress and her wildest highlights
below with this TIMES headline:
“Marjorie Taylor
Greene's Controversies Are Piling Up. Republicans Are Quiet.”
NOTE – NY TIMES Correction (January 30, 2021): “This article has
been revised to reflect the following correction: A previous version of this
article incorrectly asserted when a 40-minute video in which Greene questioned the
9/11 attacks; said former President Barack Obama was a Muslim; and, suggested
the Clintons were guilty of murder (*see below on this). Media Matters for
America reported on the video in August; it was not newly unearthed.”
Now the highlights from Rep.
Taylor Greene – fasten your seatbelt and hang on tight – from her 40-minute
video originally posted to YouTube in 2018:
* “That’s another one of those
Clinton murders,” she said referring to John F. Kennedy Jr.’s death in a 1999 plane crash, suggesting
that he had been assassinated because he was a potential rival to Hillary
Clinton for a New York Senate seat.
Greene also suggested in a 2018
Facebook post, unearthed this week by Media Matters, that a devastating
wildfire that ravaged California was started by “a laser” beamed from space and
controlled by a prominent Jewish banking family with connections to powerful Democrats.
She endorsed executing Democratic lawmakers, including Speaker Pelosi.
She served as a prolific writer
for a now-defunct conspiracy blog called “American Truth Seekers,” writing posts
with “MUST READ headlines: “Democratic Party Involved With Child Sex, Satanism,
and The Occult.”
And she argued that the 2018
midterm elections — in which the first two Muslim women were elected to the
House — were part of “an Islamic invasion of our government.”
She began traveling to
Washington for conservative events, including a prayer rally hosted by the White House, and to lobby lawmakers against passing gun safety measures.
On one such trip, she accosted David Hogg, a student who had survived
a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, FL, who was also on
Capitol Hill, but to lobby in support of stricter gun laws. In a video that CNN reported this week, Greene follows Hogg as he walks toward the Capitol, calling him a “coward” and accusing
him of “using kids” to promote his own political agenda.
Greene has repeatedly claimed in multiple videos and social media posts that several school shooting massacres were “false flag” events perpetrated by government officials in an attempt to drum up support for gun control laws.
In an October 2020 video surfaced on Friday by Mother Jones, she said that the “only
way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood.”
Greene is perhaps best known for
having endorsed QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy movement that claims that rump was facing down a shadowy cabal of Democratic pedophiles.
She told Fox News last year that she decided to “choose another path,” and a spokesman, Nick Dyer, told The New York Times this week that she did not support QAnon. Sent a list of detailed questions about her beliefs and postings, Dyer declined to respond to any of them.
In her own statement posted on Twitter on Friday afternoon, Greene assailed the “radical, left-wing Democrat mob” and reporters she said
were trying to smear her, and claimed she was profiting politically and
financially from the outrage she has provoked, saying that every negative news
report “strengthens my base of support at home and across the country.”
On the campaign trail, Greene
presented herself as a deeply conservative, pro-Trump Christian mother and
business owner, arguing that her work in the construction industry had imbued
her with the toughness that comes from working in a male-dominated field.
She railed against the ascendant
progressive wing in Congress, emphasized the importance of the Second Amendment
while toting an AR-15, and warned of “thousands” of immigrants
“pouring over” the southwestern border.
She handily won the runoff in
August and cruised to victory in November. That left Republican leaders hoping
that, once sworn in, Greene would clean up her act, disavowing her past
comments and dialing back her outlandish rhetoric.
Instead, she charged into
Congress and immediately faced scrutiny for her support of the “Stop the Steal”
campaign that falsely claimed that Trump had won the 2020 presidential
election.
She referred to January 6, the
day Congress was slated to formalize the election results, as a Republican “1776 moment” in the lead up to the violent storming of the Capitol by
pro-Trump rioters. After the rampage, she pledged that Trump would “remain
in office” and that attempts to remove him from the White House constituted “an
attack on every American who voted for him.”
She now has said about any
movement to remove her from office: “If Republicans cower to the mob, and let
the Democrats and the fake news media take me out, they’re opening the door to
come after every single Republican until there’s none left.”
A spokesman for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
GOP House Majority Leader, told Axios this week that newly surfaced Facebook
posts written by Ms. Greene and reported by CNN, in which she discussed executing top
Democratic politicians, were “deeply disturbing” and that Mr. McCarthy planned
to “have a conversation” with her about them next week. But McCarthy’s
silence so far reflects, in part, the sway Trump still has over the
Republican Party and its leaders. The former president has praised Greene
effusively and refused to condemn QAnon, despite being asked to disavow it
repeatedly while in office.
Now only after a few days in
Congress, she announced she would file articles of impeachment against
President Joe Biden.
My 2 cents: Simple and
direct message to the GOP House leadership. Do this now and save your honor,
dignity, and whatever loyalty to the nation you say you have – and the sooner
the better.
If you do not, then what do
you stand for vs. what you say you stand for?
Expel Rep. Taylor Greene
now and ensure that she never be allowed to run for any Federal office again, ever,
period, case closed.
People talk of chaos,
shame, un-American this or that and all the while blaming the other side … well,
it’s time look the nearest mirror Mr. and Mrs. GOP and see yourself and show respect
for the nation that you always profess you stand for in political floor
speeches when the camera is now – well the national camera is on now and
looking straight at you. Expel Rep. Greene and relight your honor and dignity.
Last Note: I posted earlier here about Rep.
Taylor Greene.
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