Greene responded that the Capitol attack was “terrible and shouldn’t have happened” – but then added that all of the people who died as a result of the insurrection were White, “so I’m not sure where your white supremacy bs is coming from.”įacts First: According to the FBI, it is true, not “bs,” that White supremacists were involved in the insurrection.
What we saw was horrifying and devastating. But the thing is, these groups already have a lot of overlap. In fact, the FBI alleges that some insurrection participants did make this walk, including one who allegedly went from the Trump speech to her hotel and then into the Capitol.Ībortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America tweeted the following about the insurrection: “Anti-choice extremists, white supremacists, and violent misogynists all converged this week to attack our country. ET, to the Capitol, where rioters were still present more than three hours after Trump concluded. There was more than enough time for people to walk about a mile and a half from The Ellipse park, where Trump gave a speech that ended before 1:15 p.m. Trump supporters could not have listened to President Trump’s speech at the WH and then been ‘incited’ by him to walk to and attack the Capitol.”įacts First: This is just not true – even leaving aside the fact that insurrectionists near the Capitol could have listened to Trump’s speech on their phones or could have been inspired by Trump’s previous rhetoric. After CNN emailed her congressional office to offer her the opportunity to comment on any of these findings, her communications director, Nick Dyer, had only a brief response, “Here’s our comment: ‘CNN is fake news.’”ĭefending President Donald Trump against accusations that he incited the Capitol insurrection, Greene argued: “The timeline doesn’t fit the narrative.
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And she has been a serial tweeter of false claims – about the election, the Capitol insurrection and other subjects – since she won her seat in November.īelow is a fact check of 11 false claims Greene has tweeted in the last month alone, including three related claims about the integrity of the election. Greene has a long history of embracing baseless conspiracy theories. A rookie Republican congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, was suspended from Twitter on Sunday for 12 hours after she repeatedly tweeted election misinformation.
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