Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Never Fringe

"A 2019 story in Hatewatch, a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center, traced her rise to Facebook, where she had unleashed conspiracy theories to a growing audience. She said that Representative Ilhan Omar had married her own brother; that Nancy Pelosi was "guilty of treason" and would "suffer death" or go to prison for her crimes against the American people; that the Parkland, Florida, school massacre was a "false flag" operation."

"In other posts, she said that the Rothschilds had created a "laser beam or a light beam" in space and used it to cause wildfires in California and that Q, the godlike figure behind QAnon, was "a patriot." That's why she supported Donald Trump. "There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it," she once said."

"Greene has since deleted many of her old social-media posts and distanced herself from QAnon. The internet had "sucked" her in, she said in a 2023 interview with Fox News. Then she lied. "I never campaigned on those things. That was not something I believed in," she told Howard Kurtz."

Marjorie Taylor Greene rose to political prominence primarily through her ability to generate headlines via inflammatory social media content. Her Facebook posts promoted various conspiracy theories, including false claims about Representative Ilhan Omar, accusations against Nancy Pelosi, denial of the Parkland school shooting, harassment of survivors, antisemitic tropes about the Rothschilds and George Soros, and support for QAnon. She framed her support for Donald Trump as an opportunity to combat a supposed global cabal. Subsequently, Greene deleted many posts and claimed the internet had manipulated her, denying she ever campaigned on these beliefs. More recently, she has repositioned herself as a Trump critic, attacking his tariffs, foreign policy, and connections to Jeffrey Epstein, leading Trump to revoke his endorsement and Greene to announce her House resignation.

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