Marjorie Taylor Greene Pushed “False Flag” Conspiracy Theory After Parkland Shooting

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January 19, 2021, 10:58 am

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the newly elected representative from Georgia, has already stirred up a lot of drama during her first weeks in Congress. But even before then, she was spouting out the kind of nonsense that would make any rational person stay far, far away.

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While that isn’t exactly breaking news, a recently unearthed Facebook comment from Greene back in 2018 agreeing that the Parkland school shooting was a false flag operation is.

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Greene was seen replying to a comment from another person on her page who said a Broward County sheriff’s deputy got a retirement pension as a “pay off to keep his mouth shut since [the Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School shooting] was a false flag planned shooting.”

“Exactly!” Greene replied, as if this wacko conspiracy theory is just common sense.

This kind of offensive garbage being linked to Greene comes as absolutely no surprise.

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Deemed the “QAnon congresswoman,” Greene has been known to tout insane conspiracy theories ranging from President Trump’s own baseless claim that the election was stolen from him to the infamous Pizzagate controversy, which claimed high-profile Democrats were running a child trafficking ring out of a pizza place in Washington, D.C.

Media Matters lists a series of additional outrageous claims Greene has touted, including that she has “falsely claimed that there’s no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11; labeled the 2018 pipe bomb packages to members of Congress and others a hoax; [and] accused the Obama administration of killing former Democratic staffer Seth Rich.”

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They also reported that she made another Facebook post in 2018 saying that she had been “told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control.”

In other words, anything bad that happens in the United States has either been orchestrated by the Democrats, covered up by the Democrats, or, if it happened to the Democrats, actually never happened at all, according to Greene.

This information has resulted in new calls for Greene to be expelled from Congress, including one from Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg—although that seems unlikely at this point.

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“The dissemination of conspiracy theories should disqualify someone from running for Congress,” wrote one Twitter user. “This crap is much more than a difference of opinion on policy.”

this is the most shocking, least surprising bit of news about a member of Congress I’ve ever seen. this lady is worse than steve king.https://t.co/s1Fv4ppZj2

— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) January 19, 2021

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I think it’s because the NYT, the WSJ & other big media is too busy doing interminable puff pieces on how +Rump voters *feel*.

It’s worked for them for the past 4 years. Why change it now? ::sigh::

— Ami Hendrickson (@MuseInks) January 19, 2021

Here’s the deal: she got elected BECAUSE of stuff like this, not despite it. Feature, not Bug. We all need to stop giving it oxygen and perhaps then her constituents will forget about her and once election time comes around, they’ll ask “What has she even been up to?”

— L.E. Funt (@aesopspeaking) January 19, 2021

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If she really is a “rising star” in the @GOP , then they are doomed.

— I Science Like a Girl (@Sciencelykagrl) January 19, 2021

Greene is currently on a quest to impeach President-elect Joe Biden before he is even inaugurated, and thus hasn’t yet responded to people digging up her old, idiotic Facebook comments.

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*First Published: January 19, 2021, 10:58 am