Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was nominated as a Republican in a deep-red Georgia congressional district after a Tuesday primary, expressed support for conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks during an interview revealed by Media Matters on Thursday for America.
In an interview uploaded by the American Priority Conference in 2018, Greene referred to “the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon.”
“It’s strange that no evidence is ever shown for a plane in the Pentagon,” she said.
The argument that a plane did not really hit the Pentagon, despite much evidence to the contrary, is a common one for 9/11 collusion theories.
“But anyway, I will not – I will not dive into the 9/11 conspiracy. But 9/11 had happened,” Greene said.
In the same interview, Greene falsely claimed that former President Obama “is a Muslim.”
“Obama opened our borders to an invasion by Muslims,” she said.
Greene treated the report Thursday in a series of tweets, saying “some people claimed that a rocket hit the Pentagon. I now know that is not correct.”
“I am being attacked for my opposition to open borders and globalist neocon nation building wars,” she said.
3. Some people claimed that a rocket hit the Pentagon. I now know that is not correct.
The problem is that our government cares so much for us to protect the Deep State, it is sometimes difficult to know what is real and what is not.
– Marjorie Taylor Greene For Congress (@mtgreenee) August 13, 2020
The Hill has reached out to Greene’s campaign for further comment.
Greene, who is likely to be considered to win the race to represent Georgia’s 14th District, has drawn national attention for her history of offensive remarks and embracing conspiracy theories.
She compared Democratic donor George Soros to a Nazi, said the midterms of 2018 were like an “Islamic invasion of our government” and claimed that African Americans “are being held slaves for the Democratic Party.”
She is also one of dozens of Republican candidates who have expressed support for the QAnon collusion theory, which states that President Trump and its allies work together to expose a shaky cabal of figures in the media, entertainment and politics who have an internal ring for child trafficking.
She said the unidentified Q is a “patriot” in a 2017 YouTube video.
“He’s someone who loves his country very much, and he’s on the same page as us, and he’s very pro-Trump,” Greene said. “I am very excited that there is now a once in a lifetime opportunity to take out this worldwide cabal of satan-worshiped pedophiles, and I think we have the president to do it.”
Although the QAnon community initially zeroed in on allegations of false child abuse and murder, the theory has expanded. Conspiracies about John F. Kennedy Jr., Wayfair castes and 9/11 all fit under his big tent.
Travis View, a community expert and co-host of the “QAnon Anonymous” podcast, told De Hill last month that it’s better to think of the theory as a “meta-collusion theory” that almost any other collusion theory can embrace. “
So far, the Republican establishment has hesitated to condemn Greene for her support of QAnon as racist remarks.
Trump on Wednesday offered his full support to Greene, calling her a “future Republican star.”
While a spokesman for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) Condemned some of Greene’s remarks earlier this year, he did little to stop her run-in victory.
When rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) Became the first elected official in his party to condemn Greene’s support for QAnon on Wednesday, an Trump campaign official immediately called him out.
“When will @RepKinzinger condemn Steele Dossier’s fabrications and conspiracy theories by Democrats?” Matt Wolking, deputy director of communications for the Trump campaign, wrote, adding, “That was actually Russian propaganda.”
It remains to be seen whether Greene’s remarks on 9/11 will change the calculation for the Republican establishment.
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