Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (2020)

Marjorie Taylor Greene (born Taylor ; born May 27, 1974 in Milledgeville , Georgia ) is an American politician ( Republican Party ). She has been a member of the United States House of Representatives from her home state Georgia since January 3, 2021 . She was one of 139 deputies who on January 7, 2021 the day after the storming of the Capitol in Washington, DC , for confirming Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election in 2020 voted.

Life

Marjorie Taylor Greene grew up in Cumming . After graduating from South Forsyth High School there , she studied business administration at the University of Georgia and earned a bachelor's degree. In 2002 she bought his father's construction company in Alpharetta , which she runs with her husband Perry Greene. From 2007 to 2011 she was Chief Financial Officer . She also ran CrossFit as a hobby and founded a CrossFit studio in 2011.

Marjorie Taylor Greene lived in Alpharetta for a long time and moved shortly before her congressional candidacy to Paulding County in order to run for the fourteenth congressional constituency there. Today she lives in Rome . She has three children. Greene is an Evangelical Christian and was baptized in a suburb of Atlanta in 2011 .

Political career

In 2019, Greene ran for candidacy in the House of Representatives elections for Georgia’s sixth congressional constituency. After Tom Graves announced that he would not run for re-election in the elections, Greene applied for his constituency and then changed her place of residence. In the party primary, Greene prevailed against neurosurgeon John Cowan. Cowan called party friends in Washington, including Trump's cabinet members, warning that Greene was a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory. He was only told that nothing could be done for him. In the elections on November 3, 2020, Greene, who was predicted to be a sure election success, would face Kevin Van Ausdal. However, he withdrew his candidacy in September 2020. Greene ran unopposed and received 74.6 percent of the vote. Van Ausdal, whose name was not removed from the ballot papers, received 25.3 percent of the vote.

Greene took office on January 3, 2021, the start of the new legislative term. She belongs to the Freedom Caucus . Greene became a member of the United States House Committee on Education and Labor and the United States House Committee on the Budget in late January 2021 . On February 4, 2021, the House of Representatives expelled Greene from the two committees. Previously, the Democrats had urged Republicans to take action against Greene themselves. The Republican minority leader in the Chamber, Kevin McCarthy , had refused.

Greene positioned herself as an anti-abortion opponent in the election campaign and pleaded that the organization Planned Parenthood should no longer be financed from tax revenues. In September 2020, she took part in a rally in Ringgold for the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, where she announced that she would not vote for laws that would restrict the right to gun ownership. On January 21, 2021, the day after Joe Biden's inauguration , she filed (as announced eight days earlier) for impeachment proceedings against Biden; no other MPs signed this motion.

Controversy

In May 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene declared in a video published on YouTube that she partially supported QAnon's right-wing conspiracy theories . In a video also published in 2017, Greene expressed doubts that the Las Vegas mass murderer acted alone and accused the Jewish investor George Soros of collaborating with Nazis. After the congressional elections in 2018, they described the elections Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in the House of Representatives as "Islamic invasion of the government " ( "Islamic invasion of our government"). During her candidacy for the House of Representatives, Greene distanced herself from QAnon conspiracy theories and declared that she would no longer support them after finding inconsistencies and misinformation.

During the forest fires in California in 2018 , she published suspicions on Facebook that behind the fires there could be business connections of the Jewish Rothschild banking family , in which the businessman Richard C. Blum , who is married to the Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein of the Democratic Party and how, is involved she is also a Jew. Greene speculated geostationary satellites from PG&E partner company Solaren could have started the fires to aid the construction of the California High-Speed ​​Rail . Jonathan Chait rated this in New York Magazine as an alternative modernization of well-known anti-Semitic conspiracy myths - instead of replacing “Rothschild” with “Soros” as the new villain, Greene wrote a futuristic secret, powerful space laser here . On this occasion, Solaren made it clear that they have not yet put any satellites into orbit, that Greene's suspected business relationship with PG&E was terminated in 2015 and that the microwave radiation used in the technology could not even theoretically cause the supposedly observed light phenomena. In fact, an investigation by the California Forestry and Fire Protection Agency found that poorly maintained PG&E power lines caused the camp fire .

In 2018, Greene agreed to a Facebook comment describing shootings like the Parkland School Massacre and the Sandy Hook Elementary School rampage as " false flag operations " . The commentary is based on the conspiracy theory that the rampages were staged on the orders of Democratic Party politicians to create pretexts for tightened gun laws. Several survivors of the Parkland school massacre, including David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, and Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter in the rampage, contradicted Greene's statements in January 2021 and asked her to resign. On January 27, 2021, a 2019 video was released showing Greene persecuting and molesting David Hogg and accusing him of using children for his own purposes in order to deprive them of their rights under the Second Amendment . After Hogg didn't respond to their questions, Greene later referred to him in the video as a "coward".

In 2018 and 2019 she repeatedly indicated her support for the execution of leading democratic politicians in social media and speeches . Among other things, she left a comment on Nancy Pelosi's removal from office with the statement "a bullet in the head would go faster" and declared in a speech that Pelosi had committed treason, which is an offense that can be punishable by death. She also wrote “HANG that bitch” on a Facebook post demanding the arrest of Barack Obama and John Kerry , and left another comment calling for a “Civil War 2.0”.

On September 3, 2020, Greene shared a meme on her Facebook page that was signed " SQUAD'S WORST NIGHTMARE" and shows Congressmen Omar and Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a photo montage next to Greene, who is holding a semi-automatic rifle in her hand. Commenting on the picture, Greene said it was time "to take action against socialists who want to tear the country apart". House spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi described the contribution as a "dangerous threat of violence". The following day, the picture was deleted from Facebook as a violation of the usage guidelines.

Because of the spread of conspiracy theories, her Twitter account was temporarily suspended in January 2021.

House minority leader Mitch McConnell said on February 1, 2021 that anyone who denied that there were 9/11 and school rampages was not real. Such crazy lies and conspiracy theories are a "cancer" for the Republican Party. Greene was quick to respond by claiming the party's real cancer was frail Republicans.

Also on February 1, 2021, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives issued an ultimatum to the leader of the Republicans to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from all committee mandates within 72 hours, otherwise the Democrats would impose sanctions on her by majority vote in the House of Representatives. On February 4, 2021, after the Republicans' group leader's silent refusal, the House of Representatives decided by majority vote (230 to 199) to withdraw her representation in the committees.

Web links

Commons : Marjorie Taylor Greene  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ Official List of Members of the House of Representatives of the United States and their Places of Residence. (pdf; 129 kB) United States House of Representatives, January 2, 2021, p. 4 , accessed January 6, 2021 (English).
  5. ^ Charles Bethea: How the "QAnon Candidate" Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress. In: The New Yorker. October 8, 2020, accessed February 3, 2021 .
  6. ^ Don Stillwell: Marjorie Greene officially shifts campaign to District 14 congressional seat. In: Marietta Daily Journal. December 13, 2019, archived from the original on November 4, 2020 ; accessed on January 4, 2021 (English).
  7. ↑ FAZ.net February 2, 2021: Your choice was not an industrial accident
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  9. ↑ Andrew Ujifusa: Republican Who Endorsed School Shooting Conspiracies to Join House Education Panel. In: Education Week. January 26, 2021, accessed January 30, 2021 .
  10. ↑ FAZ.net February 5, 2021: House of Representatives throws Marjorie Taylor Greene from two committees
  11. ^ Marisa Schultz: Marjorie Taylor Greene takes on shutdowns, Fauci during first week in Washington. In: Fox News . November 19, 2020, accessed January 4, 2021 .
  12. ^ Armed Supporters Surround Trump-Backed QAnon Candidate at Second Amendment Rally
  13. ↑ Patrick Filbin: Catoosa County welcomes congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene for Second Amendment rally. In: Chattanooga Times Free Press. September 19, 2020, accessed January 4, 2021 .
  14. ↑ Jeffery Martin: QAnon-Linked Congresswoman to File Impeachment Articles Against Biden on January 21. In: Newsweek . January 13, 2021, accessed January 14, 2021 .
  15. ^ Graeme Massie: Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene files articles of impeachment against Joe Biden . In: The Independent , January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  16. ↑ Marjorie Taylor Greene: H.Res.57 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, for abuse of power by enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. January 21, 2021, accessed February 5, 2021 .
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  18. ↑ Ben Nadler, Ross Bynum: QAnon-supporting candidate unrepentant despite GOP criticism. In: AP News . August 13, 2020, accessed January 4, 2021 .
  19. ↑ Savannah Behrmann: Trump calls QAnon conspiracy theory supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene a GOP 'star' after Georgia win. In: USA Today . August 11, 2020, accessed January 4, 2021 . Alli Mutnick, Melanie Zanona: House Republican leaders condemn GOP candidate who made racist videos. In: Politico . June 17, 2020, accessed January 4, 2021 .
  20. ↑ Marisa Schultz: Marjorie Greene, controversial Georgia Republican, says she's not a QAnon candidate. In: Fox News. August 14, 2020, accessed January 4, 2021 (English).
  21. ↑ Jonathan Chait: GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser. In: Intelligencer (New York Magazine). January 28, 2021, accessed February 1, 2021 .
  22. ↑ Solaren: Facebook post referencing Solaren Space Solar - setting the record straight. January 29, 2021, accessed February 1, 2021 .
  23. ↑ It was the power lines In: tagesschau.de, May 16, 2019, accessed on May 16, 2019.
  24. ↑ Eric Hananoki: On Facebook in 2018, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene endorsed conspiracy theories that 9/11 was an inside job and that Sandy Hook was staged. In: Media Matters. January 21, 2021, accessed January 22, 2021 .
  25. ↑ Cristina Marcos: Video shows Rep. Greene calling Parkland shooting survivor a 'coward'. In: The Hill. January 27, 2020, accessed on January 28, 2021 .
  26. ^ Lois Beckett: Parkland survivors call for Marjorie Taylor Greene's censure after harassment. In: The Guardian. January 28, 2020, accessed on January 28, 2021 .
  27. ↑ Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress . In: CNN , January 27, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
  28. ↑ Rachael Bade, John Wagner: GOP candidate poses with rifle, says she's targeting 'socialist' congresswomen. In: The Washington Post . September 4, 2020, accessed January 4, 2021 (English).
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  30. ↑ Julie Grace Brufke, Scott Wong: McConnell says Taylor Greene's embrace of conspiracy theories a 'cancer'. In: The Hill. February 1, 2021, accessed February 1, 2021 .
  31. ↑ Andreas Mink: Democrats give ultimatum to Marjorie Taylor Greene. In: tachles.ch. February 3, 2021, accessed February 3, 2021 .
  32. ↑ dpa / AP / mak: Controversial Republican in the US Congress loses committee posts. In: The world . February 4, 2021, accessed February 4, 2021 .
  33. ^ Clare Foran, Daniella Diaz, Annie Grayer: House votes to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committee assignments. In: CNN . February 4, 2021, accessed February 4, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Greene, Marjorie Taylor
SHORT DESCRIPTION American politician (Republican Party)
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Milledgeville , Georgia