manager marjorie taylor green (R-Ga.), earlier this year Spoken at a white supremacist eventShe expects Republicans to gain “a lot of power” if they take control of the House in the midterm elections.
during an interview with new york timesMPs and Conspiracy Theorists Emerge to Place House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), with notification. If the Republican Party takes power after the midterm elections, he is likely to become Speaker of the House.
“I think he gives me a lot of strength and leeway to be the best speaker in the House and to please the base,” Green said, “in a flat, cool voice.”
Green then claimed that what she claimed was not a threat.
“If he doesn’t, they’ll be very unhappy about it,” she said. I just think it’s real.”
The Times noted that McCarthy “enthusiastically sought her support” and, citing an unnamed source, “offered to create a new leadership position” just for Greene.
A spokesperson for McCarthy denied there had been such an offer, The Times reported.
“I don’t have to be in a leadership position,” Green told the paper.
Read her full interview with The Times here.
Green has a long history of spouting wild conspiracy theories. A school shooting was staged “False flag operation”. She also likes Facebook post call for execution Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Democratic Republic of California), and theorized that giant cosmic laser He was behind the devastating wildfires in California in 2018.The laser she pointed out Rothschilds rulea Jewish banker featured in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
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