Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the results of the 2020 US presidential election in Georgia to be decertified, and was part of the Sedition Caucus, a group of Republican legislators who unsuccessfully challenged votes for Joe Biden during the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count, even though federal agencies and courts overseeing the election found no evidence of electoral fraud.
119 Facts About Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Days after Biden's inauguration, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed articles of impeachment alleging abuse of power.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was appointed to new committee roles in January 2023.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene graduated from South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia in 1992, and the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996.
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In statements made in 2019 and on February 4,2021, in a House floor speech, explaining her position on gun rights and school shootings, Marjorie Taylor Greene alluded to being affected by a September 1990 incident at her high school, in which an armed student held 53 students hostage for over five hours.
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In 2011, Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down as the company's CFO and began CrossFit training.
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In 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that she became politically engaged during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.
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In 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited Washington, DC to protest against a Republican gun control compromise.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was a top official of the Family America Project, a conservative group founded in January 2018.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was a moderator of the organization's Facebook group, in which members posted death threats against Democrats, bigotry directed at the Obamas, and support for multiple conspiracy theories, including claims associated with the John Birch Society about the US government being infiltrated by communists.
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In February 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the US Capitol and congressional offices.
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On December 13,2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she was shifting her campaign to the 14th district after incumbent Tom Graves announced he would not run for reelection there.
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Hence, although Marjorie Taylor Greene had long lived in Milton, in the 6th district, there would have been no legal barrier to Marjorie Taylor Greene running for the 14th.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene subsequently bought a home in nearby Paulding County, which is in the 14th.
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On February 29,2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a gun rights rally in Villanow hosted by Silent No Longer, a group campaigning to make Walker County a Second Amendment sanctuary.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene posed for photos with Chester Doles, a 5th-generation Ku Klux Klansman, Grand Klaliff leader, and founder of APUSA; Doles has nearly a dozen assault arrests and served two separate prison sentences in Maryland.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene campaigned as a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump but was not endorsed by him.
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SBA filings declared Marjorie Taylor Greene Commercial expected to save 12 jobs with the funds.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was considered an overwhelming favorite to win the seat in the general election, as the 14th district typically votes heavily Republican.
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On September 3,2020, Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a meme to her Facebook page depicting herself holding an AR-15 style rifle next to a collage of pictures of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote that it was time for "strong conservative Christians to go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart"; the caption under the images was "Squad's worst nightmare".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene later mocked Van Ausdal's appearance and got into an argument with former Republican senator Jeff Flake on Twitter.
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Meadows's wife, Debbie Meadows, is the executive director of RightWomen Pac, which endorsed Marjorie Taylor Greene and contributed $17,500 to her runoff campaign.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene received support from the House Freedom Fund, a political action committee and the campaign fundraising arm of the House Freedom Caucus.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene received more donations than any other House Republican in the first three months of 2021.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing a legal challenge to her eligibility based on her alleged involvement in organizing and promoting the 2021 United States Capitol attack, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which bars people who have engaged in insurrection from serving in Congress.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was reelected in 2022, defeating Democratic nominee Marcus Flowers by almost 30 points.
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On her first day in office, Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a face mask onto the House floor that read "Trump Won", despite Trump having lost the 2020 US presidential election to Joe Biden.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene made these claims even though Anthony Aguero, a conservative activist and close associate of hers, was one of the people who stormed the Capitol.
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Later that month, Marjorie Taylor Greene asked Trump to issue her a pardon for her efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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On January 21,2021, the second day of Biden's presidency, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed articles of impeachment against him, citing alleged abuse of power as the reason for impeachment.
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On January 29,2021, Representatives Nikema Williams and Sara Jacobs introduced a resolution to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene for making threatening comments to her colleagues and to call for her resignation.
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The Washington Post reported in May 2021 that two of its reporters observed Marjorie Taylor Greene aggressively confront Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber, loudly asking why she supported antifa and Black Lives Matter, which Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely characterized as terrorists.
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In June 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the US Capitol on January 6.
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In February 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared as a surprise guest speaker at the America First Political Action Conference hosted by white nationalist Nick Fuentes, where Fuentes expressed support for the January 6 attack and for Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene later claimed not to have known Fuentes previously, and Fuentes said that Milo Yiannopoulos had arranged her appearance.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was briefly a member of the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Education and Labor before she was removed from all committee assignments on February 4,2021, for incendiary remarks she had made before her election.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was appointed to new committee roles in January 2023.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene opposes abortion, calling it "the worst scar a woman can carry for the rest of her life".
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In videos apparently recorded between 2017 and 2019, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that abortion and Planned Parenthood are two factors holding back minorities in the country, and in an August 2020 interview with Fox News, she indicated her support for defunding Planned Parenthood.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene called restrictions imposed in the US Capitol in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including face mask requirements, "tyrannical control" by Democrats.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene opposed any form of mandatory mask-wearing, compulsory vaccination, or lockdowns in response to the pandemic.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine, claiming there was no reason to because she is "perfectly healthy".
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On Facebook and Twitter, Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested the plan might be "Biden's mark of the beast", a reference to the Book of Revelation, echoing a far-right conspiracy theory that getting vaccinated is equivalent to pledging allegiance to the devil.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been fined many times for not wearing a mask on the House floor.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said she incurred a second fine of $2,500 after she again entered the House floor without a mask, and she dubbed Pelosi "Speaker Maskhole" in response.
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On June 4,2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene sent Biden a letter calling for an investigation into Fauci over his statements on the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said that she did not support the use of gain-of-function research to identify emerging diseases and develop vaccines and treatments.
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In July 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed the COVID-19 variants, including the Delta variant, saying, "no one cares".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene posted misinformation about the virus, saying it "is not dangerous for non-obese people and those under 65".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is a supporter of former president Donald Trump; on January 4,2021, she called for the results of the 2020 US presidential election in Georgia to be decertified.
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On October 22,2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene purchased shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp.
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In March 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against a measure condemning the Myanmar coup d'etat, for reasons reported to be unclear.
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In June 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
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In July 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene stated on Bannon's show that, if she had the authority to, she would kick out every Chinese person in the United States who is loyal to the Chinese Communist Party and impose strict tariffs on China.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has suggested that Ukraine instigated the invasion by agitating Russia.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of 18 Republicans to vote against admitting Sweden and Finland to NATO.
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At a September 2020 gun rights rally in Ringgold, Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would always protect gun owners' rights and would not vote for any laws making it harder for people to possess guns.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said: "The government will never tell me how many guns I can own, and how many bullets I am allowed to fire if someone were to attack me or my kids".
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In June 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
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In July 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the July 4 Highland Park parade shooting was "designed to make Republicans go along with more gun control" because the shooting occurred "in a rich, white neighborhood".
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In November 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that any Republican who supported the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was "a traitor to our party, a traitor to their voters and a traitor to our donors".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene called the $1.2 trillion bill Biden's "communist takeover of America".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized the 13 House Republicans who voted for the bill as "American job and energy killers" and derided them as "China-First and America-Last".
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On February 2,2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene co-sponsored the Old Glory Only Act, a bill to ban US embassies from flying pride flags.
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On February 24,2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to block the Equality Act while it was being debated on the House floor, saying that it would "destroy God's creation" and "violate everything we hold dear in God's creation".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene proposed replacing it with a bill that would exempt nonprofit organizations, allow people to sue the federal government "if their religious rights are violated", and prevent trans women and girls from participating in women's sports.
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Newman has a transgender daughter, whom Marjorie Taylor Greene called Newman's "biological son".
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In May 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that straight people would go extinct within less than two centuries due to LGBT-inclusive educators, calling them "trans terrorists".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely claimed that the perpetrator of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas was transgender.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene opposes the Black Lives Matter movement and has called it a Marxist group.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene denounced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a civil rights and police reform bill, as an "Anti-Police bill", erroneously claiming it would bar law enforcement from using facial recognition.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene contended that the Democratic Party is holding Black Americans as "slaves".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene disavowed the caucus and stated she was not involved, calling it a "staff level draft proposal from an outside group that [she] hadn't read".
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In February 2022, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized Marjorie Taylor Greene for attending the America First Political Action Conference, saying there was no place in the party for "white supremacists or anti-Semitism".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's tweet included a chart that omitted carbon dioxide and methane, the two most dominant greenhouse gas emissions.
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In late 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene advocated a "national divorce" between red states and blue states.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene further suggested that red states disenfranchise people who move there from blue states for a period of five years.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene repeated these suggestions in February 2023, to the condemnation of Democrats and some Republicans, including Spencer Cox, Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney.
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The next day, Marjorie Taylor Greene elaborated that she wants "a legal agreement" that would separate states more than they are now "while maintaining our legal union".
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In February 2019 videos live-streamed on Facebook, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited Pelosi's office and suggested that Pelosi would either be killed or imprisoned for treason.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene then suggested that Representative Maxine Waters had committed treason.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted a false anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the 2018 Camp Fire, a deadly wildfire in California, was caused by space lasers owned by the Rothschild family.
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In May 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted the conspiracy theory that the US government is planning to force Americans to eat fake meat grown in a "peach tree dish" by Bill Gates.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has said there are links between Hillary Clinton and pedophilia and human sacrifice and in 2017 speculated that the Pizzagate conspiracy theory is real.
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In January 2021, Media Matters found a 2018 Facebook post that showed Marjorie Taylor Greene agreeing with a conspiracy theory known as Frazzledrip, which asserts that there is a video of Hillary Clinton and her assistant Huma Abedin murdering a child in a satanic ritual and that Clinton later ordered a hit on a police officer to cover it up.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene supported the debunked far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, which she discovered through columnist Liz Crokin.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said she no longer had a connection with QAnon and mentioned having found "misinformation".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the August 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally, in which a counter-protester was killed in a car attack, was an "inside job".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand were a false flag for the same end.
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In January 2021, a Marjorie Taylor Greene staffer threatened to have WRCB-TV reporter Meredith Aldis arrested after Aldis tried to ask Marjorie Taylor Greene a question at a town hall event about her harassment of Hogg.
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Hogg called for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be expelled from Congress, saying that McCarthy tacitly supported Marjorie Taylor Greene by not taking actions to sanction her.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene went on to claim without evidence that the shooter was in the same Discord server as the teen accused of carrying out the 2022 Buffalo shooting and that there was a third party who "groomed" both young men, adding that there were suggestions that this groomer was a former FBI agent.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized the presence of the Georgia Guidestones, a 19-foot high megalithic granite monument installed in Elberton in 1982, an attraction that drew 20,000 annual visitors.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene added, "There is a war of good and evil going on, and people are done with globalism".
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In 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a video, With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations repeating the antisemitic white genocide conspiracy theory that Zionists are conspiring to flood Europe with migrants to replace the native white populations.
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In sharing the video, Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote that: "This is what the UN wants all over the world".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted the conspiracy theory that Soros' family collaborated with the Nazis in Hungary and is "trying to continue what was not finished".
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Meanwhile, Representative Jimmy Gomez and the Jewish Democratic Council of America called for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be expelled from Congress.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's statement was widely condemned by both Democrats and Republicans.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene added, "Greene has a history of offending African Americans and Jews, so bigotry is something that is apparently baked into her".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's attack was compared with other instances of anti-Catholicism in the United States.
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The statement did not name Marjorie Taylor Greene, but reporting described the statement as "unmistakably about" and "clearly targeted" at Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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McConnell confirmed it the following day, referring to his comments on Marjorie Taylor Greene and adding: "I think I adequately spoke out about how I feel".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene used the criticism for a fundraising push, saying, "Democrats are trying to expel me from Congress" and telling her supporters to "StandWithMTG".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene retained Trump's support, which presented McCarthy with the problem of having to manage the expectations of the Republican Party's various factions in dealing with Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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In lieu of total removal from her assignments, McCarthy stated that he had suggested Marjorie Taylor Greene be moved to the Small Business Committee.
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Pelosi chastised McCarthy for acquiescing to Marjorie Taylor Greene, referring to him as "McCarthy ", in reference to the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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In February 2021, CrossFit attempted to distance itself from Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once owned an affiliated gym and is an avid proponent of CrossFit fitness regimens.
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On January 29,2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene stated she had raised $1.6 million amid criticism from Democratic lawmakers.
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In 2022, the White House criticized Marjorie Taylor Greene for attacking its student loan forgiveness program, calling her hypocritical since she accepted forgiveness of a $183,504 loan from the Paycheck Protection Program.
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In early 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that under a provision of a state law, several Georgia electors had filed papers seeking to remove her from the 2022 Republican primary ballot as unqualified for office.
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On February 9,2022, while discussing the police guarding the Capitol building, Marjorie Taylor Greene called them "gazpacho police", confusing the cold Spanish soup with the Gestapo.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Kimmel of threatening violence against her and tweeted that she contacted the Capitol Police.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene had previously refused to honor the Capitol Police in June 2021, when she voted against rewarding them with the Congressional Gold Medal for defending the Capitol Building during the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
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Perry Marjorie Taylor Greene announced in September 2022 that he was filing for divorce and that their marriage was "irretrievably broken".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks often about her faith and has said that she wants to bring "my faith and my family values to Washington".
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Marjorie Taylor Greene responded that the issue was "paperwork, which is being taken care of".
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In 2023, after her divorce from Perry Marjorie Taylor Greene, she began dating Brian Glenn, a TV news anchor with WFAA in Dallas.