Republican-backed congressional candidate and right-wing commentator Marjorie Taylor Greene is both a QAnon supporter and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
In previously unreported remarks, Greene discussed the September 11 attacks and said that there was “the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon. It's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.” She also falsely said that former President Barack Obama “is a Muslim” and accused him of having “opened up our borders to an invasion by Muslims.” Both of those claims, along with the QAnon conspiracy theory, have been frequently promoted over the years by right-wing media figures and through social media, message boards, and elsewhere.
Greene is a small business owner and right-wing pundit. She won her Republican primary runoff this week in a heavily Republican congressional district in Georgia, meaning that she is likely to become the first open and avowed supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory in Congress. President Donald Trump has enthusiastically endorsed her, while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) office said that Republicans “look forward” to her victory in November.
There have been at least 75 current or former congressional candidates who have expressed support for QAnon this election cycle, according to a Media Matters tally. Greene is one of 20 candidates who are on the ballot in November.
Politico previously reviewed Facebook videos that Greene made before she ran for Congress and found that she “suggested that Muslims do not belong in government; thinks black people ‘are held slaves to the Democratic Party’; called George Soros, a Jewish Democratic megadonor, a Nazi; and said she would feel ‘proud’ to see a Confederate monument if she were black because it symbolizes progress made since the Civil War.” Still, as the publication later reported, “the party has done little to block" her "from winning a seat in the House.”
Media Matters found another video featuring Greene in which she pushed conspiracy theories. (The video was uploaded in 2018 by the American Priority Conference, where she was scheduled to speak later.)
During the video, Greene discussed the 9/11 attacks and stated, “We had witnessed 9/11, the terrorist attack in New York and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon. It's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon. But anyways, I won't -- I'm not going to dive into the 9/11 conspiracy. But 9/11 had happened. Our country was very much into a war. We had invaded Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction that we never found at that time. We were basically destabilizing the Middle East.”
