Incendiary words

Here’s a look at some of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s past statements and social media posts, many of which were deleted after Media Matters unearthed them online.

Las Vegas mass shooting

In 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire from a hotel room window overlooking an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people. Afterward, Greene suggested the shooting might have been staged.

“How do you get avid gun owners and people that support the Second Amendment to give up their guns and go along with antigun legislation?” Greene asked in a video. “You make them scared, you make them victims and you change their mindset and then possibly you can pass anti-gun legislation. Is that what happened in Las Vegas? I don’t believe [Paddock] pulled this off all by himself, and I know most of you don’t either,” Greene said.

Space lasers

In 2018, a poorly maintained electrical grid sparked a California wildfire that killed 84 people. In a Facebook post in November that year, Greene suggested a bank controlled by the Rothschild family, who are Jewish, a utility company responsible for the fire and thenGovernor Jerry Brown had a motive to spark the blaze: clearing the path for a high-speed rail project. She also speculated that the fires could have been started by “lasers or blue beams of light” shot down from space by allies of Brown who were said to be in the solar energy industry.

Omar and Tlaib

In February 2019, Greene appeared in a video arguing Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib weren’t “really official” members of Congress because they didn’t take the oath of office on the Bible. Both women are Muslim.

“They really should go back to the Middle East,” Greene said.

Tlaib was born in Detroit. Omar was born in Somalia and came to the US when she was 12, becoming a US citizen five years later.

Hillary Clinton

In May 2018, a Facebook user purporting to be the mother of a New York police officer falsely claimed that the officer had seen a video taken from the laptop of disgraced former Representative Anthony Weiner that showed Hillary Clinton and a top aide cutting off a child’s face. Greene “liked” the comment and replied, “Most people honestly don’t know so much. The [mainstream media] disinformation warfare has won for too long!”

Nancy Pelosi

Greene once suggested in an online video that Pelosi could be executed for treason. “She’s a traitor to our country, she’s guilty of treason. And it’s, uh, it’s a crime punishable by death is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason.”

She also “liked” a January 2019 Facebook post that called for “a bullet to the head” of Pelosi.

9/11 attacks

In November 2018, Greene shot a video in which she talked about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, referring to a “so-called” plane that crashed into the Pentagon. She added, “It’s odd, there’s never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.”

She also “liked” a comment posted by a Facebook user in 2018 who falsely argued that 9/11 was “done by our own Gov”. Greene responded: “That is all true.”