Marjorie Taylor Greene has reaffirmed her claims that the Democratic Party is “full of pedophiles,” stressing that President Joe Biden has an agenda to “sexualize children.”
When CBS 60 minutes reporter Leslie Stahl questioned Georgia’s representative about her past “over the top” claims, Greene, 48, defended and repeated her claims.
She said contributing to her claims about the rise in child oversexualization is the push by progressives and Democrats to legalize transgenic health care and surgery for minors.
“I will always fight to protect children!” the Republican from Georgia tweeted along with an excerpt from the interview that aired on Sunday.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repeated claims that “paedophiles” are infiltrating the Democratic Party and that President Joe Biden is “sexualizing children”
The congresswoman, often referred to by her initials MTG, is a staunch Trump supporter accused of pushing QAnon conspiracy theories, including that Democrats run an underground sex trafficking ring and that a powerful Jewish family used space lasers to start the California wildfires .
Some of her comments about school shootings led her to lose her committee positions when Democrats still controlled the House, but she earned back seat at the table when Republicans won a majority in the 2022 midterm elections and Kevin McCarthy House speaker became.
When asked during her extensive interview with 60 Minutes about her claim “Democrats are a party of pedophiles,” MTG replied, “I would definitely say so. They support taking care of children.’
“Support Democrats — even Joe Biden, the president himself, supports children who are sexualized and undergo transgender surgeries,” she continued. ‘Sexualizing children, that’s what pedophiles do to children.’
MTG has made some wild claims before, including the QAnon conspiracy that “America is run by pedophiles and Satan worshipers who are running a global child sex trafficking operation and that former President Trump is the only person who can stop them.”
Part of Greene’s claims are related to the president’s and Democratic Party’s push to legalize sex reassignment surgery for children who identify as transgender. Pictured: Biden has come under repeated fire from Republicans and former President Donald Trump for getting too close to minors
MTG, a Trump stalwart, sat down with CBS reporter Leslie Stahl for an interview on the 60 Minutes program, which aired Sunday
In a January interview, Greene told Fox News that she was “sucked into some of the stuff I’d seen on the internet,” when she explained why she made some of the claims she’d made before.
“But that was dealt with quickly at an early stage,” she added at the time. “I never campaigned for those things. That was not something I believed in. I didn’t run for Congress for that. So they are so far in the past.’
MTG has also linked Democrats to the Nazis and pushed the discredited Pizzagate conspiracy that Democratic officials were connected to a human trafficking and child sex ring.
Georgia’s lawmaker used the 60 Minutes interview to talk about a number of issues, including her opposition to sending arms and financial aid to Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion.
“What I voted against is financing a war in Ukraine,” she said. “I’ve been saying all along that the United States should push for peace in Ukraine, not fund a proxy war with Russia.”
The line is shared by China. Russia has also publicly spoken out in favor of opening peace talks.
Russia is demanding concessions unacceptable to Ukraine, including sovereignty over Crimea – a geopolitically important region for both sides that was given to Ukraine in 1954 when it was a constituent republic of the USSR.
Russia has too demanded Ukraine refuses to join the EU and NATO as part of a peace process.
Taylor Greene separately repeated her earlier comments that “good guys with guns” were needed to stop school shooters.
She responded to the tragic deaths of six Nashville schoolchildren last Monday to push for greater access to guns in schools.
She wrote, “Children and school staff should always be protected in the same way as politicians, money, gems and gold, but even more so by good guys with guns.”
“Joe Biden’s gun-free school zones have endangered children in schools and left them as innocent targets of sick, terribly disturbed people ever since he worked as a senator to pass this silly bill,” she added.
The Republican claimed the “Democrats Want Civil War” two days ago in response to Trump’s indictment.
She said the party “wants to force us to respond so they can use their armed government to lock us all up.”
Note that MTG recently called for a “national divorce,” dividing the country into red and blue states.
On Twitter, a number of voices have criticized the interview or MTG’s platforming per se.
Vanity Fair journalist Molly Jong-Fast wrote: ‘Lifting a mini-trumper because it worked out so well last time.’
Podcaster Victor Shi wrote, “Don’t get me wrong: I respect Leslie Stahl, but that interview… was truly awful. Little to no relapse. She let MTG get away with lie after lie.”
In the interview, Stahl says, “She [the Democratic party] are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?’
When MTG responds, she says, “Wow. OK.’ before we move on to a question about swearing.