Sent a list of detailed questions about her beliefs and postings, Mr. (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.) Trump was facing down a shadowy cabal of Democratic pedophiles. Greene is perhaps best known for having endorsed QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy movement that claims that Mr. A Times analysis found that 97 members of Congress or their family members traded stocks that could be influenced by their work. S tock Trading : Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would soon take up legislation intended to curb stock trades by lawmakers.attacks over crime rates ahead of the midterms. Police Funding Bill : House Democrats overcame bitter divisions to pass a bipartisan bill to increase funding for police departments - a package aimed at blunting G.O.P.The House recently passed a similar measure. Electoral Count Act: Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, endorsed a bill to overhaul the 135-year-old law, enhancing the prospects of enacting the most substantial legislative response yet to the Jan.Spending Bill : Congress gave final approval to a short-term spending package to keep the government open through mid-December, staving off a shutdown and sending about $12.3 billion in aid to Ukraine.She served as a prolific writer for a now-defunct conspiracy blog called “American Truth Seekers,” writing posts with headlines including “MUST READ - 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 endorsed executing Democratic lawmakers, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Greene 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. Since then, much more has emerged about her conspiracy claims. Obama, who is Christian, a Muslim, and hinted that the Clinton family had Mr. Greene questioned a basic fact about the deadliest terrorist attack in history, falsely called Mr. The liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America reported last summer on the video in which Ms. Greene circulated and endorsed a seemingly endless array of hate speech and conspiracy theories explicitly rooted in Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and the belief that government actors were secretly behind a sweeping range of violence. Greene’s comments or conduct, even after a week in which a slew of problematic social media posts and videos have surfaced from the years before she was elected. Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California and the minority leader, has yet to say anything personally about Ms. Trump that fueled the assault on the Capitol on Jan. Some leaders have privately said they are eager to move past the fringe movements and the charged messaging used by President Donald J. Their reticence to take action is yet another example of how Republican leaders have allowed those forces to fester and strengthen. Greene from Congress, pressure from a prominent group of Jewish Republicans to discipline her, and private consternation from within their own ranks. Greene, 46, has also created a dilemma for Republican leaders, who for months have been unwilling to publicly rebuke or punish her in any way for her inflammatory statements, in part for fear of alienating voters delighted by her incendiary brand of politics and conspiratorial beliefs.Īfter avoiding the issue for months in the hope that it would resolve itself, Republicans are now facing calls from Democrats to expel Ms. It provides a window into the warped worldview amplified by the freshman Republican congresswoman from Georgia, who in the three months since she was elected has created a national brand for herself as a conservative provocateur who has proudly brought the hard-right fringe to the Capitol. Greene casually unfurled the cascade of dangerous and patently untrue conspiracy theories in a 40-minute video that was originally posted to YouTube in 2018. 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.
“That’s another one of those Clinton murders,” Ms. 11, 2001, and flatly stating that President Barack Obama was secretly Muslim when she paused to offer an aside implicating another former president in a crime.
WASHINGTON - Marjorie Taylor Greene had just finished questioning whether a plane really flew into the Pentagon on Sept.
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