- Republican MP Marjorie Taylor Greene removed Facebook posts that showed her support for marginal conspiracy theories, CNN reported.
- The newly elected congresswoman faced a new sentence this week for her posts alleging that the mass shootings are “false flags” to justify gun control and support the execution of some Democrats.
- There have been requests for her to resign or be removed from office.
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Republican MP Marjorie Taylor Greene excluded previous Facebook posts that supported marginal conspiracy theories and showed support for the execution of Democrats, CNN reported.
Greene was convicted of unfounded allegation that mass shootings are “false flags” to justify gun control. In October 2017, after an armed man shot participants at a Las Vegas music festival, killing 58 people, she suggested that gun control activists orchestrate the shooting to promote gun regulation.
“Hey, friends. I have a question for you. How do you make avid gun owners and people who support the Second Amendment to give up their guns and move on with anti-gun legislation?” Greene said in a video, “Are they trying to terrorize our mindset and change our ideas about the Second Amendment?”
She later said the FBI was lying about the investigation, but has since moved away from that theory.
Some Democrats have called for the newly elected Congresswoman to be removed from Congress.
“This defense of extremism and sedition does not just require your immediate expulsion from Congress, but it also deserves a strong and clear condemnation from all your Republican colleagues,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat from California, said on Wednesday.
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Greene was also convicted after a video resurfaced showing her harassing David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting in 2018. Greene was not elected to Congress at the time, called Hogg, then 17, a “coward” while he was on Capitol Hill a few weeks after the shooting to defend gun control.
On social media, Greene described Hogg as “#littleHitler” and a “pawn bought and paid”.
She also liked a comment on Facebook that said the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was staged. The 2012 shooting killed 27 people, including 20 children.
Two parents of children who died in the shooting, Mark Barden and Nicole Hockley, released a statement criticizing Greene’s appointment to the House’s Education and Work Committee.
“Having a Sandy Hook and Parkland denier on the House Education and Work Committee is an attack on any and all families whose loved ones were murdered in mass shootings that have now become food for fraudsters … hateful conspiracy theories and suggestions that our children “violent deaths never happened have no place in our society, much less in the United States Congress,” the statement said.
“Attributing it to the Education Committee when she scoffed at the death of young children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when she scoffed at the death of teenagers in high school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “What could they be thinking? Or thinking a word too generous for what they might be doing? It is absolutely terrifying.”
CNN reported that it noticed that posts from 2018 and 2019 were removed after they saw that some of the links saved by the network’s KFile team were no longer available. A Facebook spokesman told the media that they did not remove these posts.
Greene’s office did not respond to Insider’s request for comment at the time of publication.