Feb 05,2021: Embattled United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was censured by the House of Representatives on Thursday after she issued her first public apology for offensive social media posts and disavowed QAnon conspiracy theories as false.
“In 2018 when I started finding misinformation, lies, things that were not true in these QAnon posts, I stopped believing it,” Greene said in remarks on the House floor in which she acknowledged that “school shootings are real” and “9/11 absolutely happened”.
“I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them. And that is absolutely what I regret,” Greene said.
At the same time, Greene struck a combative tone, pushing back against accusations by Democrats and reports in US media outlets that she had advocated or “liked” posts suggesting the execution of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic politicians.
The Democratic-controlled House voted 230 to 199 to remove Greene from her education and budget committee assignments after Republican leaders refused to do so. Greene had received a standing ovation from House Republicans in a closed-door meeting on February 3, Democrats complained.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was among Democrats targeted by Representative Greene in social media posts. Pelosi on Thursday called Greene ‘an extreme conspiracy theorist’ and ‘a QAnon adherent, 9/11 truther and harasser of child survivors of school shootings’
Eleven Republican legislators joined Democrats in voting to expel Greene from two House committees. Democrats rejected Greene’s apology as insufficient and said she had continued to espouse false claims and disinformation circulating on right-wing internet sites.
