Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was widely mocked online after she claimed the internet is to blame for why she had gotten "sucked into" QAnon conspiracy theories.
Greene told Fox News during a discussion about last week's right-wing rebellion that nearly cost Kevin McCarthy the House speakership that, like many Americans, she fell prey to a lot of what she saw online.
She said many of the Republican holdouts who ultimately voted for McCarthy requested committee assignments before agreeing to back him, noting she had not requested any committee assignments herself.
However, host Howard Schulz pointed out Greene was stripped of her committee assignments after she promoted violence against Democrats and questioned her previous statements she is "no longer influenced" by QAnon at all.
You can hear what Greene said in the video below.
\u201cGreene: Like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some things I had seen on the internet..\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1673197414
Greene claimed:
"Well, like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some things I had seen on the internet."
"But that was dealt with quickly, early on. I never campaigned on those things."
"That was not something I believed in, that's not what I ran for Congress on, so those are so far in the past."
However, many disputed Greene's version of events and questioned her fitness for office.
\u201cI feel *much* better knowing that some members of the legislative branch can be 'easily sucked into some things' they have seen on the internet. \ud83d\ude44\u201d— \u24d8 Qpublican f*ckery detected (@\u24d8 Qpublican f*ckery detected) 1673281580
\u201cShe actually admits she is a clueless imbecile unfit for office who will fall for anything.\nDamn.\u201d— RufusKings (@RufusKings) 1673216132
\u201cShe sure is a sucker\u2014for anything that brings her a sense of power.\u201d— D-Ray (@D-Ray) 1673282884
\u201cReally what you want from powerful elected officials: admitting they are gullible idiots susceptible to falling deep into believing nonsense.\u201d— Gary Legum (@Gary Legum) 1673204623
\u201cWhy elect a person who is easily sucked into internet BS?\u201d— Tiff4Mahogany_44 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Tiff4Mahogany_44 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1673208496
\u201cCall me old-fashioned but I like political figures who aren't easily suckered into ridiculous internet conspiracies\u201d— Wayne From Ohio (@Wayne From Ohio) 1673273862
\u201cCritical thinking is something you should have as a member of the House. \n\nBeing easily dupped is not a good trait for a leader.\u201d— Ministry Of Truth (@Ministry Of Truth) 1673283854
\u201cEdited for restraint: \nThis pablum excuse is supposed to erase a record that includes demanding the release of 1/6 rioters as political prisoners,anti-semitism, taunting a young man traumatized by gun violence, attendance at a white supremacist event, accusing Pelosi of treason.\u201d— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sherrilyn Ifill) 1673209933
\u201c\u201cI got sucked into some things I had seen on the internet\u201d says lady whose Jewish-space-lasers school of thought is one of those things people see on the internet and get sucked into\u201d— Doug Saunders (@Doug Saunders) 1673213547
QAnon—whose believers allege Democrats are part of a Satan-worshipping, baby-eating global pedophile ring that conspired against former Republican President Donald Trump during his time in office—counts Greene as one of its more vocal adherents.
Greene claimed there are links between former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and pedophilia and human sacrifice, once insisting "Pizzagate"—a debunked conspiracy theory targeting Democrats that claimed Clinton ran a pedophilia ring out of the basement of a pizza restaurant that didn't even have a basement—was real.
Greene at one point also claimed the death of John F. Kennedy Jr.–who was killed in a plane crash in 1999–was a "Clinton murder" because he was floated as a possible rival to her for a United States Senate election in New York.
But perhaps no evidence of Greene's faith in QAnon is as damning as her own admission the eponymous "Q"—the anonymous individual or individuals from whom many of these conspiracies originate—is "a patriot" who offered adherents 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."
