Marjorie Taylor Greene removes social media posts amid scrutiny of past controversial comments
(CNN)Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has removed dozens of Facebook posts from 2018 and 2019 in which she endorsed fringe conspiracy theories and repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians.
Searches of Greene's Facebook show the posts from 2018 and 2019
have been removed. Links saved by CNN's KFile during a review of
hundreds of posts and comments from Greene's Facebook page are no longer
available.
Greene
is facing backlash for her conspiratorial social media posts after CNN
reported she indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in
Facebook comments and videos.
The
freshman congresswoman from Georgia also deleted videos she posted on
Facebook Live where she said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is "guilty of
treason" and that she will "suffer death or she'll be in prison" for her
"treason."
CNN reached out to Greene's office for comment on the removed posts but did not receive a response.
Greene, who made the comments before running for Congress, posted a statement on her Twitter account
on Tuesday in which she did not deny that she liked posts and replied
to comments but claimed that many people have run her Facebook page.
"Over
the years, I've had teams of people manage my pages. Many posts have
been liked. Many posts have been shared. Some did not represent my
views," she wrote.
A Facebook spokesman told CNN's KFile the posts were not removed by the company. Greene previously had posts removed for
violating the company's community standards, the Facebook spokesman
confirmed, in which Greene agreed with people who said the 2018
Parkland, Florida, shooting was a "false flag" operation. "False flag"
refers to acts that are designed by perpetrators to be made to look like
they were carried out by other individuals or groups.
In a video that surfaced Wednesday,
Greene is seen harassing Parkland shooting survivor and gun control
activist David Hogg outside the Capitol. In the video from March 2019,
she calls Hogg a "coward" and said he was "paid to do this," repeating a
malicious lie that Hogg's activism was paid for by billionaire
philanthropist and Democratic donor George Soros. Survivors of the Parkland shooting and victims' families have called for Greene to resign.
In
a written statement to CNN, Greene said that the video was taken while
she was in Washington, "going from office to office in the Senate to
oppose the radical gun control agenda that David Hogg was pushing."
"In
11th grade, one of my fellow students took our school hostage with a
gun he brought to our 'gun-free' school," Greene said. "I understand
that fear firsthand and I will always work to protect our gun rights so
that Americans can defend themselves and others against bad people
intent to harm or kill them."
Greene announced earlier this week that she would serve on the House Committee on Education and Labor.
At a weekly press conference on Thursday, Pelosi harshly criticized House Republican leaders for assigning Greene to the committee.
"Assigning
her to the Education Committee when she has mocked the killing of
little children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when she has mocked the
killing of teenagers in high school at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School -- what could they be thinking?" Pelosi asked. "Or is
thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing? It's
absolutely appalling, and I think the focus has to be on the Republican
leadership of this House of Representatives for the disregard they have
for the death of those children."
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