Marjorie Taylor Greene Falsely Claims That She Walked Away from QAnon in 2018.

Days after news broke that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested that “lasers” controlled by “Rothschild, Inc” had beamed “the sun’s power down to earth” causing wildfires in 2018, the brand-new congresswoman offered a non-apology on the floor of the House.

Greene’s speech came the day after she met with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who reportedly asked her to apologize for her previous statements, and issued his own statement condemning the conspiracy theories she had promoted. (McCarthy, it should be noted, has his own history of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories).

The QAnon conspiracy originated on the right-wing extremist message board 4chan when an anonymous poster named “Q” claimed to have insider knowledge of high-level government plans. The basic premise is that Donald Trump is secretly executing an ingenious plan to take down the “deep state” by ridding the government and media of his enemies, who, according to QAnon believers, are pedophiles trafficking children for sex and for their blood, George Soros, elites in Hollywood, and a similar vague cast of characters.

In a speech she later posted to her congressional Twitter account, Greene said she “was allowed to believe things that weren’t true” because of QAnon, adding: ”I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is what I absolutely regret.” (4:14)

“If it wasn’t for the Facebook posts and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn’t be standing here today, and you couldn’t point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong, because I’ve lived a very good life that I’m proud of”

Despite claiming that she “stopped believing” in QAnon “later in 2018” after she “started finding misinformation.” Greene went on to state that she “walked away” from QAnon at that point, and “started getting involved in politics.” Greene’s lies continued:

“I never once said during my entire campaign, ‘QAnon.’ I never once said any of the things I am being accused of today during my campaign. I never said any of these things since I have been elected for Congress." These were words of the past and these things do not represent me.” (2:59)

Despite Greene’s assertion that her association with QAnon ended at the end of 2018, and that she did not spread any of the conspiracies she is now being criticized for while running for office, her Twitter posts in 2019 and 2020 tell a very different story.

In early 2019 — after the date by which she claimed to have “walked away” from QAnon — Greene tweeted “America will you awaken?” which can be interpreted as a reference to the “Great Awakening” promised by QAnon. Well into her campaign in 2020, Greene was regularly posting antisemitic dog whistles like the word “globalist,” and furiously writing about Jewish philanthropist George Soros. She labeled Soros an “enemy of the people” who was “funding the destruction of America,” also claiming that “any Democrat running for prosecutor (or judge) is bankrolled and totally owned by @georgesoros.”

Along with many QAnon adherents, Greene devoted energy in September of 2020 to the Netflix documentary “Cuties,” which she, along with fellow Q believers, accused “Satanic pedophilia” — an unmistakable reference to the QAnon conspiracy theory:

“Anyone in the Fake News Media or our federal government who defends and promotes the Satanic pedophilia in Netflix’s #Cuties needs to be exposed.”

Not only do Greene’s own words indicate her ongoing support for QAnon; her association with her own attorney, infamous QAnon believer Lin Wood, reveal the depth of her continued affinity for the antisemitic conspiracy theory.