Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her conspiracy theories won t get expelled from Congress
Only five members of Congress have been expelled from the House. Greene won t be the sixth.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene isn t going anywhere anytime soon.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
Feb. 1, 2021, 10:37 AM UTC
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has believed a lot of things. The Georgia Republican believed that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a false flag operation. She believed that California wildfires could have been sparked with a laser fired from space which, of course, a Jewish corporation owns, according to her. She believed that interacting with death threats against elected officials in Facebook comments was a good idea. She believed that the QAnon mass delusion is worth listening to.
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Republicans face increasing pressure to strip Georgia Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene of her post on the House Education Committee. Greene was elected in November 2020 and is a far-right conspiracy theorist who has promoted QAnon, supported the execution of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and claimed the school shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida, were staged â as was the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. She also has a history of racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic comments. Bee Nguyen, a Democratic state representative in Georgia, recently joined other lawmakers in signing a resolution that calls on Greene to resign. “The congresswoman has proven to be dangerous, not just to our state, but to our country,” says Nguyen. We also speak with Michael Edison Hayden, senior reporter for the Southern Poverty Law Center, who says media discussions of QAnon and other far-right cons