Marjorie Taylor Greene Excuses Her "Jewish Space Lasers" Comment In A Very Marjorie Taylor Greene Wa
Since taking office earlier this year, Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon conspiracy theorist, has been exposed for making a number of egregious racist and transphobic remarks. Greene’s old Facebook posts have showed her glorifying violence against Democratic politicians, supporting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and displaying disturbing thoughts about school shootings.
In one post, on which New York magazine reported earlier this year, Greene suggested that the 2018 California wildfires were started by space lasers controlled by the Rothschild banking firm, instead of something more probable like climate change. The claim is rooted in a long history of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family, Vox reported. After NYMag writer Jonathan Chait described Greene’s theory about what he called “Jewish space lasers,” it didn’t take long for the term to start trending on Twitter.
Now, Greene is now walking back these comments — but she’s not taking responsibility for them. Instead, she’s blaming the far-right’s favorite boogeyman, the “radical left.”
“This is a story that some leftist ‘journalist’ — really he’s an activist — wrote a hit piece on me and titled it ‘Jewish Space Lasers,'” Greene told Newsmax TV. “You know, the left-wing media, they just run the same lies over and over again and they call me an anti-Semite and say that I said something like Jewish space lasers, and I never did.”
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