McConnell Slams Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Conspiracies As ‘Loony Lies’ – By Alana Wise (NPR) / Feb 1 2021
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — the controversial, QAnon-supporting freshman congresswoman — on Monday found herself facing blowback from her own party’s leadership for espousing dangerous and unfounded conspiracies about American politics.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called her views, which have at various points included such baseless accusations as blaming the Jews for California wildfires and accusing mass shooting events of having been staged, a “cancer” on the Republican party.
“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country. Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” McConnell said in a short statement Monday night that doesn’t not directly cite her by name.
“This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”
