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Nevilledog

(51,086 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:36 PM Aug 2020

QAnon candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claimed that there's no..

QAnon candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claimed that there’s no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon

https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/qanon-candidate-marjorie-taylor-greene-911-conspiracy-theorist-who-claimed-theres-no

Republican-backed congressional candidate and right-wing commentator Marjorie Taylor Greene is both a QAnon supporter and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

In previously unreported remarks, Greene discussed the September 11 attacks and said that there was “the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon. It's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.” She also falsely said that former President Barack Obama “is a Muslim” and accused him of having “opened up our borders to an invasion by Muslims.” Both of those claims, along with the QAnon conspiracy theory, have been frequently promoted over the years by right-wing media figures and through social media, message boards, and elsewhere.

Greene is a small business owner and right-wing pundit. She won her Republican primary runoff this week in a heavily Republican congressional district in Georgia, meaning that she is likely to become the first open and avowed supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory in Congress. President Donald Trump has enthusiastically endorsed her, while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office said that Republicans “look forward” to her victory in November.

There have been at least 75 current or former congressional candidates who have expressed support for QAnon this election cycle, according to a Media Matters tally. Greene is one of 20 candidates who are on the ballot in November.

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QAnon candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claimed that there's no.. (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Worth pushing that she's saying the 2001 Republicans were all liars about the Pentagon? muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 #1

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
1. Worth pushing that she's saying the 2001 Republicans were all liars about the Pentagon?
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 03:07 PM
Aug 2020

And therefore were part of the 9/11 Conspiracy, whatever she really thinks happened? There's a huge Republican vote in her district - it has to be alienated from her somehow.

Embarrass McCarthy with it, at the least.

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