Marjorie Taylor Greene (27 May 1974-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-GA 14) from 3 January 2021, succeeding Tom Graves.
Biography[]
Marjorie Taylor Greene was born in Milledgeville, Georgia in 1974. According to an interview with Michael Voris, Greene grew up as a Catholic, but converted to Protestantism due to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. She was the owner of a commercial construction and renovation company, and she also founded and sold a successful CrossFit gym. In 2020, she ran for US Congress with the catchphrase "Save America, Stop Socialism!"; she advertised herself as "a conservative wife, mother, and businesswoman who 100% stands with President Trump and against the left-wing socialists who want to wreck our country."
However, on 17 June 2020, she drew controversy when it was discovered that she had made a series of offensive remarks against African-Americans, Jews, and Muslims in Facebook videos from 2017 to 2019. She said that she would be proud to see a Confederate monument if she were black because it would symbolize progress since the American Civil War, she claimed that black people "are held slaves to the Democratic Party", she claimed that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were part of "an Islamic invasion of our government", that "Slavery is over. Black people have equal rights," and that the Hungarian-Jewish philanthropist and refugee George Soros was "a Nazi himself trying to continue what was not finished". Although she won the first round of the Republican primary with more than 40% of the vote and was backed by Republican congressmen Jim Jordan and Andy Biggs and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, she was criticized by the GOP leadership, who backed her primary opponent John Cowan ahead of the 11 August runoff. She ultimately won the election with almost 75% of the vote, but she immediately proved to be a highly controversial representative-elect.
On 6 November 2020, when Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw tweeted his belief that the Republican Party should accept the outcome of a fair vote, Taylor Greene jumped on his comments and claimed that he was capitulating to the Democrats with his "loser mindset"; Crenshaw responded by arguing "Did you even read past the first sentence? Or are you just purposely lying so you can talk tough? No one said give up. I literally said investigate every irregularity and use the courts. You're a member of Congress now, Marjorie. Start acting like one." On 21 January 2021, she introduced six frivolous articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden, alleging that he had previously abused his power while serving as Vice President. On 4 February 2021, with the support of eleven Republicans, the Democratic-controlled US Congress had Greene stripped of all of her committee assignments because of her many incendiary comments. On 16 April 2021, she started the far-right "America First Caucus", whose nativist platform was leaked to the internet, leading to immense blowback from the GOP leadership and Greene's disavowal and cancellation of the caucus.