Sandy Hook parents angered over Congress member’s post about shooting

WASHINGTON — A new Republican congresswoman agreed in 2018 that the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged, according to Facebook posts that surfaced this week, drawing condemnation from Connecticut lawmakers and calls for her resignation from some gun-reform groups.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wrote in 2018 “that is all true” on a Facebook post that claimed the Sandy Hook and Parkland shootings were “stagged [sic],” along with the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The post was surfaced by Media Matters this week.

In response, Nicole Hockley, another leader of the non-profit Sandy Hook Promise and mother of six-year-old Dylan who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, invited Greene to Newtown to see her son’s ashes and his “bullet-hole riddled sweatshirt.”

Asked if Greene still believes the school shootings were staged, her spokesman Nick Dyer said simply “no” and referred the reporter to a Twitter statement from Greene, in which she referred to the 2018 Parkland shooting at Marjoriy Stoneman Douglas High School as “tragic” and said the students who died should have been protected by “good guys with guns.” Greene is also Congress’s most prominent QAnon supporter.

The false, extremist theory that the Sandy Hook shooting, which killed 26 people, including 20 children, was a hoax, has plagued Newtown families for years, promoted by Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others. Now even Jones doesn’t believe it was staged , like he did in 2014, according to court documents. But other extremists continue to hound and harass Sandy Hook families over the falsehood.