ATLANTA — A Georgia congressman said colleague Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should be removed from a powerful committee.
In just the past 24 hours, another congressman filed legislation to expel Greene from Congress, sheriff’s deputies threatened to arrest a reporter who tried to ask her a question at a public town hall and even more conspiracy theory-filled social media posts have been uncovered.
In a 2018 Facebook post, Greene talked about wondering if lasers from space controlled by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company caused the California wildfires.
CNN uncovered comments that Greene hit the “like” button on supporting assassinating Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with a bullet to the head.
When asked about that Thursday, Pelosi focused instead on posts Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray first showed you last week where Greene implied deadly school shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland were faked.
“To have someone who would mock, call it a fake, those fake events onto education, it’s just beyond any understanding,” Pelosi said.
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Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson told Gray he does not support efforts to expel Greene from Congress, but he does want her removed from the House Education and Labor Committee.
“I think she’s demonstrated by her past words and her conduct that she should not serve on that very committee that before it will come victims of Sandy Hook victims of Marjory Stoneman Douglas,” Johnson said.
On Twitter on Thursday, Greene wrote: “The media only reports the lies, smears, and attacks in order to create the image they want the world to believe.”
“Marjorie Greene is an idiot,” said Seth Weathers, who was former President Donald Trump’s statewide director for Georgia in the 2016 race. “Hey, I’m the first to call out fake news when I think I see it. But the reality I looked at this myself. She’s said these things. These are crazy nut-job conspiracies that just aren’t true. And again, I’m a hardcore as hard-right Republican as you can get.”
When Gray asked Greene’s office on Thursday why she’s deleting posts from her social media, a spokesman told him, “The fake news media is trying to cancel her, just like they’ve canceled countless conservatives.”
In another statement, Greene has also claimed that before ever running for public office, she had teams of people running her social media sites.
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