Advocates push for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation over report that she spread falsehoods about school shootings
Two years before she was elected to Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene hopped on Facebook to respond to a comment falsely claiming that the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was staged, according to screenshots posted by Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog group. Instead of rejecting the false claim surrounding the mass shooting that killed 17 people, Greene enthusiastically agreed with the conspiracy theory.
“Exactly!” she wrote in response.
Those comments, along with a number of other instances unearthed this week of Greene casting doubt on school shootings, sparked outrage among survivors and family members of those killed in two of the country’s deadliest mass shootings. By Thursday, several advocacy groups, including March for Our Lives-Parkland, Moms Demand Action, and Everytown for Gun Safety, called for Greene (R-Ga.) to give up her seat in the House of Representatives.
Greene’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment as of early Friday.
Greene, the first open supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory to win a seat in Congress, has also continued to repeat former president Donald Trump’s baseless claims of mass election fraud. Earlier this week, Twitter temporarily suspended her account after she posted a clip with false claims about the election.