- Marjorie Taylor Greene, a GOP congressional candidate virtually certain of winning a Georgia congressional seat, promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory, liberal watchdog group Media Matters reported Thursday first.
- Greene, who also supports far-right QAnon conspiracy, falsely stated “there has never been evidence of a plane in the Pentagon” during 2018 remarks at the American Priority Conference.
- Later on Thursday, Greene acknowledged that the 9/11 conspiracy was “incorrect” in a series of tweets in which she initially falsely stated that three, rather than four, planes were hijacked on 9/11.
- President Donald Trump celebrated Greene’s primary win in a tweet Wednesday, calling her a “future Republican Star” and “strong at everything.”
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican candidate for Congress virtually certain of a Georgia congressional seat, promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory in 2018, liberal watchdog group Media Matters said Thursday first.
On Thursday afternoon, Greene acknowledged the conspiracy was “incorrect” in a series of tweets in which she initially falsely stated that three, rather than four, planes were hijacked on 9/11.
“Some people claimed that a rocket hit the Pentagon. I now know that is not correct,” she tweeted. “The problem is that our government cares so much about protecting the Deep State that it is sometimes difficult to know what is real and what is not.”
Greene, who also supports the far-right QAnon coalition, referred to the “so-called plane that crashed in the Pentagon” during a November 2018 address to the American Priority Conference.
“It’s strange, there’s never been any evidence of a plane in the Pentagon,” she continued, apparently referring to a 9/11 conspiracy traded on frone forums.
In fact, the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, killing 125 people inside the building and all 59 people on the plane. The incident and its aftermath were documented through video and photos.
President Donald Trump celebrated Greene’s primary victory in a tweet Wednesday, calling her a “future Republican Star” and “strong at everything.”
Greene, who runs a construction business with her husband and largely self-funded her House campaign, won the Republican primary runoff in Georgia’s deep red 14th congressional district on Tuesday. She is pretty sure of winning the general election this fall.
She has repeatedly expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy, which falsely claims that a network of pedophile Satanists is working in the “deep state” to oust Trump. She’s called Q – the anonymous leader of the conspiracy – “a patriot “ and said he was “worthy of listening and paying attention.”
—Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) August 13, 2020
