Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has landed herself in the media hot seat yet again this week. Amid rising criticism over her adherence to QAnon conspiracy theories, the freshman Georgia congresswoman has rushed to scrub her social media of posts supporting said falsehoods, including a video in which she appears to call for the death of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
CNN uncovered the video amid an investigation of Taylor Greene’s past rhetoric. In it, she claims Pelosi has committed “treason,” a crime punishable by death.
“She’s a traitor to our country. She’s guilty of treason,” Taylor Greene says in the video. “She gives aid and comfort to our enemies who illegally invade our land. That’s what treason is. And by our laws, representatives and senators can be kicked out and no longer serve in our government, and it’s a crime punishable by death. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason and we want her out of our government. She’s held her seat of power for 32 years. She’s 78 years old. She is dying in Congress. We are fed up with these corrupt politicians that hang on to their power just to make themselves rich.”
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CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski has since reposted the video in question to Twitter.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has also removed this Facebook video where she suggests Pelosi can be executed for treason.
"It's a crime punishable by death is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason," she says. pic.twitter.com/cUVT4Bcr06
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 28, 2021
The video has disappeared from Taylor Greene’s Facebook, along with most of her posts from 2018 and 2019. Facebook, for its part, reports that Taylor Greene has an extensive history of posting articles and comments that violate community standards, but emphasizes that the company did not delete the post. That would indicate that Taylor Greene did so herself.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has faced mounting backlash this week over her long history of promoting conspiracy theories around major events such as the Sandy Hook Massacre and 9/11. Earlier this week, video surfaced of an apparently armed Taylor Green harassing Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg in 2019. In the clip, she refers to Hogg as a “coward” and claims that his activism is actually being funded by George Soros. CNN has also documented other social media activity from Taylor Greene in which she called Parkland a false flag operation, and liked posts calling for the murder of Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi, for her part, blasted Republicans this week for appointing Taylor Greene to the House Education Committee.
Mister P
The only way this woman could get is elected is misinformed voters.
We have to make the media and social media be responsible for the greater good. A news network cannot tell lies for profit because that’s what the viewers want to hear.
The House needs to vote this lady out ASAP
Mack
She got elected because they threaten her opponent into quitting the race and she ran unopposed. It goes to show that the Republican Party is becoming the party of crazies
GlobeTrotter
This is what frustrates me most about the democrats – they’re deathly afraid of exercising raw power, presumably because of how it might look. This is not something that bothers the GOP, as we’ve seen these past four years. The dems are now in power, they need to USE IT! Eject Marjorie Taylor from Congress. Change the rules and ban firearms from Congress as well as heavily fine any member of Congress that defies the ban.
They have the power, they just need to USE IT! Don’t think for a minute that the GOP would be wringing their hands in self-doubt if they were the ones in power. As a matter of fact, Sen. Mitch McConnell gave an excellent masterclass these past four years on how to wield raw power in the Senate. If only Nancy Pelosi had been taking notes!
ljbivins
You’ve hit the nail on its head.
DaddyRob
This woman is insane. I read her statements and found them beyond crazy. My favorite is how the Jews have a laser beam aimed at the sky causing wildfires in California. I am not joking. She is crazy. Forget wearing a tin foil hat. She wears a tin foil suit.
Den
I did not actually believe the Jewish laser thing, so googled it.
Yup, she is at least as crazy as it is possible to be and not be incarcerated as a danger to the lives of others, if not already over that line!
JromeGervais09
Can’t she just be hunted like a rabid dog?
duke4172
This woman is a nut and needs to resign!
BoomerMyles
Another libertarian gone off the deep end. Libertarians claim to be “non-aggressive” and “free thinking” but have given rise to Gavin McEnnis of Proud Boys, Steven Molyeaux, gay self-loather Milo Yiannopolis and professional transphobe Jordan Peterson.
Libertarians are the epitome of hipocracy
Den
I think that more than hypocrisy Libertarians are incredibly delusion prone. Everything they hold dear is anti-social, devoid of empathy, and based on an imaginary world and “bizarro” ethics.
But yes, also hypocrites.
Kangol2
2020 demonstrated the utter intellectual and social bankruptcy of libertarianism, and neoliberalism for that matter. The greedy + each for his own + government trimmed to the bare minimum + letting the market fill the breach approach, pushed with utter incompetence by Don the Q-Anon’s administration produced the worst one year death total of any pandemic in 100 years (400,000 people and counting) while crashing the US economy and devastating the lives of countless other Americans. Libertarianism and objectivism (Ayn Rand’s version) may be cute as an intellectual exercise but in reality it is disastrous.
missvamp
Running unopposed doesn’t mean she gets to keep her post. They need to remove this psycho!
mozzer
She’s just the nastiest White trash imaginable. Like get all the worst stereotypes and put them together and you get this B*TCH
D_Bro
Maybe she should look up the definition of the word “Treason”. “The crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.”
Den
The right doesn’t “believe” in dictionaries.
It’s kind of like faith to them. Words mean what you believe they mean, so that trust in the mechanics of government and knowledge of civics is “treason”, and armed insurrection because you did not get the election result you wanted is “patriotism”.
Yes, they are that simpleminded.