Controversial GOP House candidate Marjorie Greene (Ga.) Is trying to distance herself from the QAnon collusion theory, claiming in an interview with Fox News on Friday that videos of her acclaimed ‘Q’ do not represent her current position on the matter.
Greene – who also came under fire after videos appeared of her making bigotry remarks and publicly questioning whether a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, causing her to return later – won this Republican primary runoff in the 14th District of Georgia this week.
‘No, I do not [consider myself a QAnon candidate]. I think it has been the characterization of the media of mine. “Never before during my campaign have I ever talked about QAnon or Q,” she told Fox News.
“My campaign message all along has been ‘Save America, stop socialism,’ and that’s the message I believe in,” she continued. “I believe a lot in America’s first policy, and I’m a big supporter and defender of it President Trump
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The Georgia Republican went through the media advocating and misrepresenting her campaign by highlighting her earlier comments on the conspiracy theory, which claims that officials and celebrities control the government and other powerful institutions in an attempt to undermine President Trump.
“I do not expect many of the left-leaning media to change their position,” she said. “I think they continue to attack me because they actually see me as someone who is unapologetically conservative. And I will not back down on my beliefs and my values.”
While Greene previously posted videos on YouTube that talked about QAnon – including one where she said “Q is a patriot” – the candidate said she no longer associated herself with it after finding ‘misinformation’.
“I was just one of those people, just like millions of other Americans, who was just starting to look at other information,” she told the network. “And so, yeah, there’s been a while I’ve been reading about Q, posting about it, talking about it, what are some of these videos you’ve seen coming out. But once I started To find the wrong information, I decided to go the other way. “
Greene’s inflammatory remarks have raised concerns within the GOP, with several Republican lawmakers voicing their comments about Blacks, Jews and Muslims and embracing QAnon could have a negative impact on the party’s image and potentially other Republican candidates in dragging tight races.
“QAnon is a manufacture. This ‘insider’ has predicted so many wrongs (but people do not remember PAST predictions), so has now moved on to vague generalities. Could be Russian propaganda as a basement dweller. However, there is no place in Congress for this conspiracy, ”Rep. Adam Kinzinger
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