QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene could destroy Republican Party
Pro-Trump congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene could tear apart the Republican Party – and unleash chaos across America in the process.
In the first weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency, the US Republican Party have struggled to pick up the pieces in the wake of their former leader’s exit from the White House.
But as they prepare for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, there’s another politician – fond of spreading lies and using Twitter to do it – at the eye of the storm who could tear apart the party and unleash chaos across America in the process: Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The QAnon-supporting conservative businesswoman has become a thorn in the side of not just the Democratic Party, but her own, since her election to the House of Representatives last November.
In the aftermath of the deadly Capitol insurgence on January 6, there’ve been mounting calls to expel Ms Greene from Congress due to her history of violent and hateful rhetoric.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that the House would vote on Thursday (local time) on whether to strip her of her committee assignments, after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed to take action against her.
“I spoke to Leader McCarthy this morning, and it is clear there is no alternative to holding a Floor vote on the resolution to remove Rep. Greene from her committee assignments,” he wrote on Twitter.
“The Rules Committee will meet this afternoon, and the House will vote on the resolution tomorrow.”
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Deemed a “future Republican star” by the former president, the 46-year-old Georgian has for years splashed her extreme right-wing, racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic views all over her social media, using her platforms to support the execution of prominent Democrats and frequently reposting conspiracy theories about everything from election fraud to the authenticity of school mass shootings.
While the Republican Party had largely stayed quiet on Ms Greene’s conduct, in recent days some of the highest-ranking members have raced to distance themselves from the “deeply disturbing” messages she continues to spread.
“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday, after being questioned about Ms Greene.
“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr’s airplane is not living in reality.”
The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 2, 2021
This is why we are losing our country.
I’m the “greatest threat†to the Democrat mob and the activist media.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 2, 2021
They hate me because I represent your America First views.
They think Trump is gone, so they attack you and me.
He’s not gone. And we won’t back down and we will never give up!
We REFUSE to be canceled! pic.twitter.com/m0py2NKd57
Senator and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said today that his party “should have nothing to do with Marjorie Taylor Greene, and (I) think we should repudiate the things she said and move away from her”.
“Our big tent is not large enough to accommodate conservatives and kooks,” he continued.
“It’s important for us to separate ourselves from the people that are the wacky weeds.”
Below, examples of some of the controversial congresswoman’s most troubling behaviour.
SHE’S A QANON BELIEVER
Perhaps her greatest claim to fame, Ms Greene has been a vocal supporter of the far-right conspiracy theory that believes Mr Trump was fighting against “deep state” operators who worship Satan and run child sex-trafficking rings.
In a 2017 YouTube video that has since been made private, Ms Greene said that “Q is a patriot”.
“He is someone that very much loves his country, and he’s on the same page as us, and he is very pro-Trump,” she added.
“I’m very excited about that now there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.”
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HARASSING A SCHOOL SHOOTING SURVIVOR
Last week, a video resurfaced of the congresswoman following David Hogg, a student who survived the 2018 Parkland school shooting, down a street and calling him a “coward”.
Ms Greene had previously agreed that the horror Florida shooting was a “false flag” event – an incident planned or faked by someone to take away people’s guns – and once wrote on Facebook that House Speaker “Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control”.
Addressing Ms Greene’s statements and her harassment of Mr Hogg, Linda Beigel Schulman, the mother of a teacher who died in the shooting, accused her of “trivialising my son Scott’s sacrifice to save his students for your own political gain”.
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.@mtgreenee, is this you harassing @davidhogg111 weeks after the Parkland shooting, that my daughter was killed in & he was in? Calling him a coward for ignoring your insanity. I will answer all of your questions in person. Get ready to record again.pic.twitter.com/aQjL74x7kh
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) January 27, 2021
SUPPORTING CALLS TO EXECUTE PROMINENT DEMOCRATS
A CNN report published last week revealed Ms Greene repeatedly indicated support to execute prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019.
In one post from January 2019, she liked a comment that said “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove Ms Pelosi.
In a Facebook Live broadcast from inside Ms Pelosi’s office, Ms Greene reportedly said that the House Speaker will “suffer death or she’ll be in prison” for her “treason”.
Responding to commenters on another post of hers, Ms Greene wrote that the “stage is being set” to “hang” Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
In a statement after the CNN article was published, the congresswoman called it a “hit piece” but did not deny any of the likes and replies were real.
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Fake News CNN is writing yet another hit piece on me focused on my time before running for political office.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) January 26, 2021
I will never back down to the enemy of the American people and neither should you. pic.twitter.com/K3JuvqrDGS
For her part, Ms Greene looks unlikely to stand down. In a statement to supporters, she blamed the “radical, left-wing Democratic mob and the Fake News media” for the effort to “take me out”.
“I will never back down. I will never give up. Because I am one of you. And I will always represent you,” she said.
“I take these slings and arrows gladly for you. I take them for our America First movement so that we can save our country and stop socialism. I knew this day would come, it was only a question of when.”
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