Posted on 10/13/2020 3:33:50 AM PDT by RandFan
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a House GOP candidate who has shown support for QAnon, sparred with Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) on Twitter over the weekend regarding a recent House-passed resolution condemning the conspiracy theory.
Greene, the GOP nominee for a House race in Georgia, argued that Riggleman and Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who both sponsored the QAnon resolution, have not done enough to condemn the far-left activist group antifa.
“Hey @Malinowski and @RepRiggleman, I assume you're working late tonight putting together a resolution condemning Antifa and 'rejecting' the violence they promote? Antifa is no 'conspiracy theory.' #AntifaTerrorists,” she tweeted.
Greene’s comments came after the fatal shooting of a man in Denver, with Greene claiming the shooter was a member of antifa. Denver police have said the shooter is not linked with the far-left movement.
Riggleman, who has publicly condemned antifa, responded to Greene by saying his “thoughts last night were w/ the family of the man killed,” adding that she shouldn’t “encourage those who are fact challenged-conspiracy theorists like those in #QAnon- or LEFT & RIGHT fringe groups.”
Greene went on to accuse Riggleman of “parroting” Democratic talking points.
Riggleman then responded with a meme, telling Greene that “she may go now.”
She shot back by drawing attention to Riggleman's primary defeat earlier this year.
“I would say hopefully we can work well together in January, but it’s likely passing useless resolutions that don’t target the real threat are why you got primaried. Your meddling in my election didn’t hurt me either. America is ready for Republicans that fight back,” she tweeted.
Greene has previously voiced her support for QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that alleges there's a cabal of Democrats and global elites running an international child trafficking ring and attempting to control the government. She later attempted to distance herself from “Q,” stating that she no longer associates with it after finding “misinformation."
But over the weekend she took aim at the bipartisan nonbinding resolution passed by the House, arguing that QAnon doesn’t pose a “real threat.”
The resolution, which passed in a 371-18 vote earlier this month, cited numerous examples of violence and criminal activity seen from QAnon supporters and calls for federal law enforcement and the FBI to allocate additional resources toward countering conspiracy-driven extremism.
Greene, who won the Republican primary runoff in Georgia’s 14th District in August, also came under fire earlier this year after videos emerged of her making bigoted remarks and publicly questioning whether a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. She later walked back the remarks.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report lists the 14th Congressional District as "solid Republican," meaning Greene is largely expected to win in November.
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“have not done enough to condemn.”
Why bother? It’s never enough with these clowns.
Have the dems done ANYTHING to condemn antifa?
No, because they're all in it together.
By this time, the whole narrative of Q is nothing but an exercise in honesty.
Q is either on the inside of the admin. like he/she/they claim. Or they are unknown to the admin. and POTUS.
Even people who have been dropped on their head, would not think it ok to just let some unknown character continue to text while telling the recipients they have POTUS permission.
Imagine if someone hacked your phone and had your entire contact list. Friends, parents, kids, boss, co-workers, family, neighbors, etc. If they started sending out texts saying they had your approval, and you had no idea who was doing the sending, what would any rational person do?
The only conspiracy theory at this point, is believing POTUS would not have the IQ to send out one single tweet. Q anon is fake news!
No biased reporting here...
How do you know it's "baseless"?
All this over a “conspiracy.”
Yeah their chief douchebag Dave Wasserman is all over Twitter proclaiming Trump doomed in poll after poll, and county after county, just as he did in 2016, while pretending to be unbiased.
What “numerous examples of violence and criminal activity seen from QAnon supporters”? I smell Bullcrap!
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