"[306][307] Parkland shooting survivors such as David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, as well as Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting, condemned Greene's remarks and demanded that she resign from Congress. [371][379][380][378] Upon returning to Twitter, she criticized the company: "Contrary to how highly you think of yourself and your moral platitude, you are not the judge of humanity. [242] One year later, when Derek Chauvin was found guilty of Floyd's murder, Greene claimed the verdict was a result of jury intimidation by Black Lives Matter which she compared to the Ku Klux Klan and called "the most powerful domestic terrorist organization" in the United States and falsely asserted that Washington, D.C. was "completely dead" on the night of the verdict because people were "scared to go out" for "fear of riots". $50. [252] According to a leaked seven-page document on the aims of the caucus, they believe that "America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions. Members of the House are constitutionally required to live in the state they represent, but not necessarily in the same congressional district. [15] As a congresswoman, she equated the Democratic Party with Nazis, and compared COVID-19 safety measures to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust,[16][17][18] later apologizing for this comparison. [123] On January 28, with the revelations of Greene's threats against Democratic members of the House, Pelosi spoke of an "enemy within the House of Representatives" and the need to increase security measures, stating that this referred to "members who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress" alluding to Greene and other Republican representatives, such as Lauren Boebert, who wanted to bring guns onto the House floor. [259][260], In February 2022, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized Greene for attending the America First Political Action Conference, saying there was no place in the party for "white supremacists or anti-Semitism". An envelope. 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[135], In August 2021, after the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack requested that over 30 telecommunications companies retain phone records related to the attack, including those of Greene and several other members of Congress, she promised that companies that complied would be "shut down". Other. Basically I would call her [a] professional campaigner, but she loses. [238], On June 1, 2022, Greene said that "an entire" pride month celebrating LGBT people "needs to end. [13] In a video posted to YouTube in 2018, Greene suggested John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death in a plane crash in 1999 was a "Clinton murder" because he was a possible rival to her for a U.S. Senate election in New York. [47] In the videos, Greene said that she wanted Omar and Tlaib to instead be sworn in on the Bible and accused them of supporting Islamic law. [136], In February 2022, Greene appeared as a surprise guest speaker at the America First Political Action Conference hosted by white nationalist Nick Fuentes,[137] where Fuentes expressed support for the January 6 attack and for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. [341] McConnell confirmed it the following day, referring to his comments on Greene and adding: "I think I adequately spoke out about how I feel". [310], In the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting in May 2022, Greene claimed that the shooter had engaged in cross-dressing, echoing similar claims by right-wing politicians and media figures that the shooter was transgender. Greene tweeted Monday that the novel coronavirus was not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65. More than 600,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19. [343] Mitt Romney said that the Republican Party's "big tent is not large enough to both accommodate conservatives and kooks". [169][170] Two days later, on a podcast hosted by evangelical commentator David Brody,[171] Greene called Pelosi "mentally ill" and said that Pelosi's requirement that House members continue wearing masks until they all prove they have been vaccinated "is exactly the [same] type of abuse" as Jews being "put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany" during the Holocaust. [1][33][38] The couple are its vice president and president, respectively. [295], Greene supported the debunked far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, which she discovered through columnist Liz Crokin. "[97], Prominent Republicans who supported Greene in her candidacy included Donald Trump; U.S. representatives Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, and Matt Gaetz; Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk; and Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. [109], On her first day in office, Greene wore a face mask onto the House floor that read "Trump Won", despite Trump having lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Joe Biden. [58] At the rally,[59][60] she held up a banner for American Patriots USA a far-right group attempting to further its influence with Georgia Republicans. WebContact. [142][28][143] She was appointed to new committee roles in January 2023. [9] Reviving the Clinton kill list conspiracy theory, she claimed Clinton murdered her political enemies. [112][113] She refused to wear a face mask while sheltering in place during the riot, and during the debate to impeach Trump she tweeted: "Democrats must be held accountable for the political violence inspired by their rhetoric." [214][215] She said: "The government will never tell me how many guns I can own, and how many bullets I am allowed to fire if someone were to attack me or my kids". [124] Pelosi also criticized the House Republican leadership for placing Greene on the Education Committee after Greene had questioned the authenticity of deadly school shootings around the country. 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[278], In an interview with gun activist Chris Dorr on October 27, 2020, a week before election day, Greene told viewers: "the only way you get your freedoms back is it's earned with the price of blood. [52][b] She stated her commitment to balance the federal budget and restrain Congress from using its constitutional power to spend new money into existence, adding: "If we look at our country as our household, we're going to go under foreclosure because we're overspending. [7], In 2018, Greene's Facebook account shared a conspiracy theory about the Camp Fire, a deadly Californian wildfire, suggesting that it could have been caused by "space solar generators" in a scheme involving California Governor Jerry Brown, companies PG&E, Rothschild & Co, and Solaren. [255][256] Greene's office said on April 16 that the new caucus would be launched "very soon",[257] but the next day her spokesman said it was still in an early planning stage and that Greene was not "launching anything". ROME, Ga. . [310][343] Greene used the criticism for a fundraising push,[342] saying, "Democrats are trying to expel me from Congress" and telling her supporters to "StandWithMTG". Although Greene conceded that her comments might sound "like a conspiracy theory", she said that "the definition of a right-wing conspiracy theory" is "just the news a month early. [61][62] Greene posed for photos with Chester Doles, a 5th-generation Ku Klux Klansman, Grand Klaliff leader, and founder of APUSA;[63][64] Doles has nearly a dozen assault arrests and served two separate prison sentences in Maryland. [40] In a 2015 interview, Greene said that when she and Mayer founded the gym, they knew little about how to run a business. [236], In April 2022, Greene criticized Ketanji Brown Jackson for not answering Senator Marsha Blackburn's question "what is a woman?" [161] Greene and other Republicans refused to wear masks in a secured room with other members of Congress during the storming of the Capitol in January 2021;[162] afterward, it was reported that several representatives tested positive for the virus, including Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider. [29][30], Greene was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, on May 27, 1974,[31] the daughter of Robert Taylor. In sharing the video, Greene wrote that: "This is what the UN wants all over the world". Both occurred on March 25, 2019, and Greene live-streamed the first to her Facebook account. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in office less than a month, but shes already drawing attention for some pretty disturbing superlatives. [205][206] Also in July, Greene voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act, which would increase the number of special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U.S. military during its invasion of Afghanistan by 8,000, while also reducing some application requirements that caused long application backlogs; the bill passed in the House by a vote of 40716. [101], In January 2021, Media Matters found a 2018 Facebook post that showed Greene agreeing with a conspiracy theory known as Frazzledrip,[292] which asserts that there is a video of Hillary Clinton and her assistant Huma Abedin murdering a child in a satanic ritual and that Clinton later ordered a hit on a police officer to cover it up. [311], In January 2021, a Greene staffer threatened to have WRCB-TV reporter Meredith Aldis arrested after Aldis tried to ask Greene a question at a town hall event about her harassment of Hogg. Please find below the best ways to contact our office for specific requests. According to House rules, subsequent fines were $2,500 each. Government is not God. [193][26][194], During an interview with Steve Bannon on July 7, 2021, Greene rejected a conspiracy theory that suggested Trump would be reinstated as president in August 2021. [128], Later in May, Greene voted against the January 6 commission, a proposed commission which would have investigated the attack on the Capitol. [158] She called restrictions imposed in the U.S. Capitol in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including face mask requirements, "tyrannical control" by Democrats. [83] In response to questions from Forbes about whether the meme was a threat, a Greene campaign spokesperson dismissed that idea. [166][167] According to August 2021 financial disclosures, in 2020 Greene owned stocks in three COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, with at least $15,000 of stock in both Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, and at least $1,000 of stock in AstraZeneca. [182][183] In the letter, she called COVID-19 a "manufactured plague" caused by a "Chinese-made virus". [283][293][294] Greene dismissed Media Matters' findings as the work of "Communists [sic] bloggers". Other donors included Barb Van Andel-Gaby the chair of board of The Heritage Foundation and attorney L. Lin Wood, who later promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 U.S. presidential election. [273][274] She repeated these suggestions in February 2023, to the condemnation of Democrats and some Republicans, including Spencer Cox, Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney. From February 4, 2021, to January 17, 2023: After she won the 2020 Republican primary runoff election, Greene wrote on Twitter: "The GOP establishment, the media, & the radical left, spent months & millions of dollars attacking me. This Earth warming, and carbon, is actually healthy for us. [69], In a July 14 runoff debate, Cowan questioned Taylor Commercial's acceptance of Paycheck Protection Program money in relation to Greene's opposition to congressional appropriations of relief funds during the pandemic and also Taylor Commercial's donations to Greene's political campaign. [300] She said the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand were a false flag for the same end. Her Twitter account was temporarily suspended five times in 2021,[371][372][373] from manual reviews or automated systems. [55] She subsequently bought a home in nearby Paulding County, which is in the 14th. [10][284] She said, "There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it. "[189], At an August 2021 fundraiser in Alabama, Greene claimed that Biden would be "sending one of his police state friends to your front door" to inquire whether they had received a vaccine, and said, "in the South, we all love our Second Amendment rights, and we're not really big on strangers showing up on our front door." That Might Break the Rules", "How U.S. Rep. 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[196], During a speech at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, Greene adamantly opposed foreign aid, saying: "I wanted to take my regular, normal person, normal, everyday American values, which is: We love our country. ", "Who is the Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene? 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[374][375][376] Her personal account was reinstated in November 2022, weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter. On May 6, the judge ruled that she was eligible for reelection, but the final decision belongs to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Georgia's 14th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives is represented by Marjorie Taylor "[279] On January 29, 2021, The New York Times detailed Greene's support for and past ties with extremist militia groups, including the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers; both groups had members participate in the 2021 attack on the U.S. "[220], In November 2021, Greene said that any Republican who supported the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was "a traitor to our party, a traitor to their voters and a traitor to our donors". Greene also promoted a false anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the 2018 Camp Fire, a deadly wildfire in California, was caused by space lasers owned by the Rothschild family. Her comments drew widespread criticism, including from leading Republican representatives and the Jewish community. [235], In June 2021, during an interview with Steve Bannon, Greene called transgender women "men playing dress up" and "literally having an identity crisis", saying, "They never will be [women], and I refuse to recognize them that way. [369], In 2022, the White House criticized Greene for attacking its student loan forgiveness program, calling her hypocritical since she accepted forgiveness of a $183,504 loan from the Paycheck Protection Program. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has added to her record of outrageous and anti-LGBTQ+ statements by saying that stepparents arent [388][389] After Greene opposed the Equality Act, her character featured again in February on the Weekend Update sketch, wherein she misspelled "science", compared herself to Pennywise the Dancing Clown, pulled a handgun on co-anchor Colin Jost, and claimed to be possessed by a demon. [392][393], On June 15, 2021, after Greene's visit to the Holocaust Museum, Jimmy Kimmel Live! It helps us to feed people, it keeps people alive. [314], Soon after these comments came to light, Representative Jahana Hayes, whose district includes Sandy Hook, circulated a letter to the House Republican leadership urging them not to seat Greene on the Education Committee. [144][333] In turn, McCarthy called some of Greene's comments "deeply disturbing". [359] CrossFit spokesperson Andrew Weinstein told BuzzFeed News: "CrossFit supports respectful fact-based political dialogue to address our common challenges, and we strongly oppose the loathsome and dangerous lies attributed to Ms. [159] She opposed any form of mandatory mask-wearing, compulsory vaccination, or lockdowns in response to the pandemic. She wrote that it was time for "strong conservative Christians to go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart"; the caption under the images was "Squad's worst nightmare". Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) railed against climate change mitigation programs in Congress Wednesday, not merely because she doesnt believe in man-made climate change. "[237], In May 2022, Greene claimed that straight people would go extinct within less than two centuries due to LGBT-inclusive educators, calling them "trans terrorists". [53] The district includes much of Northwest Georgia, stretching from the Georgia side of the Chattanooga metropolitan area to the exurbs of Atlanta. [221] She called the $1.2 trillion bill Biden's "communist takeover of America". More than 140,000 people signed the petition. [203][204], In July 2021, Greene stated on Bannon's show that, if she had the authority to, she would kick out every Chinese person in the United States who is loyal to the Chinese Communist Party and impose strict tariffs on China. [2][399] Perry Greene announced in September 2022 that he was filing for divorce and that their marriage was "irretrievably broken". [18][176][177][178] "[262][263][264], "We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one another while our galaxy rotates and travels through the universe.
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