Marjorie Taylor Greene had just finished questioning whether a plane really flew into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, and flatly stating that President Barack Obama was secretly Muslim when she paused to offer an aside implicating another former president in a crime.
“That’s another one of those Clinton murders,” Greene said, referring to John F. Kennedy Jr.’s death in a 1999 plane crash, suggesting that he had been assassinated because he was a potential rival to Hillary Clinton for a New York Senate seat.
Greene casually unfurled the cascade of dangerous and patently untrue conspiracy theories in a previously unreported 40-minute video that was originally posted to YouTube in 2018. It provides a window into the warped worldview amplified by the freshman Republican congresswoman from Georgia, who in the three months since she was elected has created a national brand for herself as a conservative provocateur who has proudly brought the hard-right fringe to the Capitol.
“Yes, I do believe he is a Muslim,” Greene said of Obama. “And, yes, Valerie Jarrett is too.”
A lower profile would be to her benefit as a newly elected Representative. She might want to focus on events and issues germane to her district as her prime focus so that her chances of re-election improve.
Glad she was elected; now her job is to serve the district and get re-elected.
JFK, Jr. wasn’t running for anything when he flew into the ocean with his wife and sister-in-law as passengers. Despite a famous name he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed on a career basis. More to the point he was a low experience pilot with barely sufficient instrument ratings, proficiency and currency. It’s a dangerous mix that’s killed many before and after him. Despite her rep, Hillary had nothing to do with his demise; he owned it.