Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has once again publicly made a false statement, this time claiming brothers who died in connection with their fentanyl addictions were the fault of Joe Biden's border policies despite the men dying during the Trump administration.Ms Greene told the story of the brothers during a Congressional hearing on 28 February and she blamed Mr Biden's border policies for their deaths.Caleb, 20, and Kyler Kiessling, 18, died on 29 July 2020 when they accidentally overdosed on fentanyl. The brothers, along with 17-year-old Sophia Harris, took pills they believed to be Percocet, but which actually contained fentanyl.
I’m not going to blame a grieving mother for saying outrageous things; losing a child makes makes you desperate for any answers about a tragedy. But her ire is literal GOP talking points that even right wing thinktanks have debunked Just last year, the Cato Institute noted that nearly all fentanyl is smuggled in by US citizens and then sold to US citizens.
It’s the Republicans’s xenophobic narrative that is providing protection for the actual drug dealers. This narrative is a part of their 2024 campaign as well, so the party will continue to create cover for more drug dealers, resulting in more grieving mothers.
I wonder if the Mother will ever figure out she was used like this
CNN journalist Daniel Dale contacted Ms Greene's office for comment on the fact that the deaths Ms Greene was attributing to the Biden administration actually occurred under former President Donald Trump.
"[Ms Greene's] Spokesman Nick Dyer responded by saying lots of people have died from drugs under Biden and 'do you think they give a f*** about your bulls*** fact checking?'" he wrote in a Twitter post.
He then asked the spokesman to comment on other comments Ms Greene made before Congress, including election lies that Mr Trump actually won Georgia and that the state counted the votes of thousands of dead individuals.
The spokesman was unable to respond to minimal scrutiny, and replied "f*** you."
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Conservatives Need Their Own ‘Safe Space’
Critics of “woke” policies are usually pretty skeptical about snowflakes calling for safe spaces—but Marjorie Taylor Greene is suddenly all for the idea. The Georgia lawmaker even went so far as to claim that MAGA Republicans “deserve” one of their own. “We’re fed up with Democrat policies, we’re fed up with the woke ideology being shoved down our throat, and we’re tired of our children being brainwashed into these same ideas,” Greene told Sean Hannity on Fox News on Tuesday. “We want our own safe space and we deserve it,” Greene added while discussing her recent advocacy for a “national divorce” between red and blue states. Commenting on Greene’s remarks, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tweeted: “Republicans ridiculed ‘safe spaces’ and called people ‘snowflakes’, this coming from one of their leaders is literally hilarious.”
The same woman who thinks it's okay to stand up and during the middle of the State of the Union by the President of the United States and scream, "liar liar!" is butt hurt because somebody stood up in a restaurant and said fuck you? I just can't.
Marjorie Taylor Greene 'Attacked' by Woman While at Restaurant
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she was attacked while sitting at a table in a restaurant.
Greene said a woman and her son began shouting at her like "demons" while she was working with her staff on Monday evening (February 27), saying that the two of them were "completely out of control."
In a tweet, Greene said: "I was attacked in a restaurant tonight by an insane women and screamed at by her adult son. They had no respect for the restaurant or the staff or the other people dining or people like me who simply have different political views.
But harassing teen victims of mass shoots while chasing them down the street isn’t Batshit crazy?
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/27/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-david-hogg-video/index.html
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