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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has more than most to celebrate as the new GOP majority takes power in the House of Representatives, and is doing all she can to engineer a Capitol Hill comeback as a result.
It’s a political and strategic victory for Ms Greene, who is rumoured to be a candidate for the powerful House Oversight Committee.
Mr Kurtz questioned her briefly about the issue, pressing Ms Greene on her past embrace of the conspiracies.
“Well, like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some things I had seen on the internet, but that was dealt with quickly early on.
But despite her insistence that those issues were “dealt with quickly”, Ms Greene has continued to embrace other conspiracy theories openly throughout her tenure in Congress.
“I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them,” Ms Greene said in a February 2021 floor speech. »
