Not long after he issued a statement criticizing her QAnon beliefs, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green fired back at Mitch McConnell in a Tuesday post.
“The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. This is why we are losing our country,” she said on Twitter.
The freshman House Representative’s name was not cited in McConnell’s statement, but he did refer to some of her claims.
“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,” McConnell said.
“Someone who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality.”
He continued: “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”
A 2018 video that had recently emerged depicted Greene defending conspiracy theories over the 9/11 terrorist attacks: “It’s odd there’s never any evidence for a plane in the Pentagon,” she said.
She also alleged that the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting was “false flag operations” on Facebook.
Democrats said Monday that they are working to remove Greene, who currently sits on the House Education and Labor Committee and Budget Committee, from her position.
