Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress yesterday Andrew Harnik/PA Images

US Republican who spread conspiracy theories thrown off congress committees

Nearly all Republicans voted against the move but none defended Greene’s lengthy history of outrageous social media posts.

A FIERCELY DIVIDED House of Representatives tossed US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees in an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she had earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.

Underscoring the political vice the newly-elected Georgia Republican’s inflammatory commentary has clamped her party into, nearly all Republicans voted against the Democratic move but none defended her lengthy history of outrageous social media posts.

Eleven Republicans joined 219 Democrats in backing Greene’s ejection from her committees, while 199 GOP lawmakers voted “no”.

The chamber’s near party-line vote was the latest instance of conspiracy theories becoming pitched political battlefields, an increasingly familiar occurrence during Donald Trump’s presidency.

He faces Senate trial next week for his House impeachment for inciting insurrection after a mob he fueled with his false narrative of a stolen election attacked the Capitol.

Thursday’s fight also underscored the uproar and political complexities that Greene — a master of provoking Democrats, promoting herself and raising campaign money — has prompted since becoming a House candidate last year.

Addressing her colleagues, Greene tried to dissociate herself from her “words of the past” yesterday.

Contradicting past social media posts, she said she believes the 9-11 attacks and mass school shootings were real and no longer believes QAnon conspiracy theories, which include lies about Democratic-run pedophile rings.

But she did not explicitly apologise for supportive online remarks she has made on other subjects, as when she mulled about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being assassinated or the possibility of Jewish-controlled space rays causing wildfires.

Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone...
A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation.

View 20 comments
Close
20 Comments
This is YOUR comments community. Stay civil, stay constructive, stay on topic. Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy here before taking part.
Leave a Comment
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Marg FitzGerald
    Favourite Marg FitzGerald
    Report
    Aug 31st 2019, 8:24 PM

    Nothing to do with mass immigration

    14
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute LittleBee
    Favourite LittleBee
    Report
    Aug 31st 2019, 9:02 PM

    @Marg FitzGerald: all migrants are offered vaccinations as appropriate from their healthcare provider

    3
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute ➕The Gray➕
    Favourite ➕The Gray➕
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 8:06 AM

    @LittleBee:
    Even the one that enter illegally?

    6
    See 5 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute ➕The Gray➕
    Favourite ➕The Gray➕
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 8:20 AM

    @➕The Gray➕:
    *ones

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute thesaltyurchin
    Favourite thesaltyurchin
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 10:33 AM

    @Marg FitzGerald: Trust is ultimately what it’s all about.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute LittleBee
    Favourite LittleBee
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 11:26 AM

    @➕The Gray➕: yes
    http://www.hpsc.ie/guidance

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute LittleBee
    Favourite LittleBee
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 11:29 AM

    @LittleBee: sorry that link doesn’t work be suse it’s a pdf but if you pop it into Google you can read the entire infectious disease protocol for migrants

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute ➕The Gray➕
    Favourite ➕The Gray➕
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 9:52 PM

    @LittleBee:

    Even the one that are never caught?

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute GrahamMManning
    Favourite GrahamMManning
    Report
    Aug 31st 2019, 7:31 PM

    Thanks science denying numpties! Blood on your hands.

    14
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Diarmuid Hunt
    Favourite Diarmuid Hunt
    Report
    Aug 31st 2019, 7:42 PM

    @GrahamMManning: Despite agreeing with your sentiment, that kind of phrasing isn’t at all going to help them become more open to vaccination, in fact I’d say it would do the opposite.

    4
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute GrahamMManning
    Favourite GrahamMManning
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 3:41 AM

    @Diarmuid Hunt: agreed but at this point (ur not local nite?) do you really need anyone adopting standards views re this?

    1
    See 1 more reply ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute thesaltyurchin
    Favourite thesaltyurchin
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 10:32 AM

    @GrahamMManning: are scientific studies the same as medical studies?

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute DJ François
    Favourite DJ François
    Report
    Aug 31st 2019, 7:51 PM

    Anti vax types are morons.

    18
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Paul Whelan
    Favourite Paul Whelan
    Report
    Sep 1st 2019, 12:36 AM

    Refugees , thanks

    3
Submit a report
Please help us understand how this comment violates our community guidelines.
Thank you for the feedback
Your feedback has been sent to our team for review.

Leave a commentcancel

 
JournalTv
News in 60 seconds