As the camp ravaged northern California in November 2018, Marjorie Taylor Greene, then vice president of a Georgia construction company and part-time social media conspiracy theorist, took to Facebook the hypothesis that Governor Jerry Brown started the fire with space lasers.
Several media organizations are combing through old social media posts written by the newly elected Greene, revealing the depths of their conspiracy. Among others, she endorsed QAnon, Pizzagate, 9/11 truterism and the idea that the school shootings in Sandy Hook and Parkland were staged. California Democratic Representative Jimmy Gomez has since presented a resolution calling for his expulsion from Congress, as more came to light.
On Thursday, Media Matters for America reported on a now deleted Facebook post, where Greene detailed his completely unfounded, though elaborate, theory of Camp Fire.
She claimed a connection between Brown, PG&E and Rothschild Inc. (the Rothschild family has been the target of numerous unfounded conspiracy theories, mainly aimed at defaming Jews as greedy and nefarious), before getting to the heart of her theory.
“It must also be just a coincidence that the fires are burning in the same projected areas where the $ 77 billion High Speed Rail Project will be built, which is also Gov Brown’s favorite project,” she wrote.
Just one problem: the fire burned in Butte County, just north of the San Francisco and Sacramento Bay area. There were no plans to extend the high-speed rail north of Sacramento.
Greene then wrote, “There are all these people who said what looked like lasers or beams of blue light causing fires”, before claiming that “space solar generators” – devices invented by those who wish to “replace coal and oil” – the power to “collect energy from the sun and then radiate it back to Earth”.
There are no such devices yet. While it is true that the United States Air Force is working on the development of satellites that collect and store solar energy, the first such satellite will not be launched until 2024, at the very least.
Ultimately, Greene is unable to decide whether the fire was started on the high-speed rail project, sinking the price of PG&E’s stock before an inevitable recovery or a space laser accident that needed a cover-up.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy – who comes from California – has been relatively quiet about Greene’s unearthed social media posts in recent days.
After she was discovered, she once defended the execution of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, liked Facebook comments suggesting that FBI agents be executed and echoed a QAnon theory about Hillary Clinton cutting and dressing a child’s face, a McCarthy’s spokesman called his social media activity “deeply disturbing” and said the minority leader “plans to have a conversation with” Greene.