GOP Abandons Gun-Toting Greene Over Racist Rants On Social Media

DALLAS, GA — Marjorie Taylor Greene is attacking the “Fake News Media” and the “DC Swamp” as Georgia Republicans scramble to distance themselves from her candidacy for Congress.

U.S. Rep. Jody Hice of Monroe, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is the latest Republican to rescind his endorsement of Greene. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Hice’s announcement is important because the Freedom Caucus had urged Greene to run in the first place and then put $200,000 into her campaign.

Greene, whose campaign ads have shown her toting semiautomatic weapons, is running for the Republican nomination to replace U.S. Representative Tom Graves in the reliably red northwest Georgia mountains. Although Greene won far more votes in the June 9 primary than her nearest competitor, John Cowan, she didn’t quite reach a majority. Cowan and Greene will face each other in an August runoff.

“I find Marjorie Taylor Greene's statements appalling and deeply troubling,” Hice wrote Thursday on Facebook, adding he could no longer support Greene’s run for Geogia’s 14th Congressional District.

The statements in question, buried in several years of Facebook videos, were unearthed by Politico earlier this week.

In one rambling diatribe against what she calls “an Islamic invasion into our government offices,” Greene declared that Muslims “throw gay people off of buildings,” then moments later added that “they can have sex with little boys, little girls, multiple women.”

Comparing the world to a “buffet of countries,” Greene said “if you want Islam and Sharia law, you stay over there in the Middle East, you stay there in your go to Mecca, do all your thing, and you know what, you can have a whole bunch of wives or goats or sheep or whatever you want.”

In another video, Greene, wearing an olive colored baseball cap with an American flag on it, declares that blacks are held back by “being in gangs and dealing drugs” and not by white people.

Greene said that gangs tell blacks “don’t you go to school, don’t you move out of this projects.” Later in the same video, Greene said that “slavery is over” and “black people have equal rights.”

In the wake of unrest in Atlanta fueled by the police-involved deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, Greene’s candidacy is particularly awkward for Republicans. According to Politico, the party fears Greene may be the next Steve King, a U.S. representative from northwest Iowa known for years of embarrassingly controversial comments. King lost his primary earlier in June.

Among Georgia Republicans who’ve criticized Greene in the past is U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, an enthusiastic supporter of President Donald Trump who is now running for U.S. Senate. Nationally, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney also have scolded Greene publicly.

On Wednesday, Greene tweeted that “No one intimidates me. Not the Democrats, Not George Soros, not the Fake News Media, and not the DC Swamp.”

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that Cowan tweeted this in response: “Vote #CowanForCongress: All of the conservative, none of the embarrassment.”

Yeah, Marjorie talks tough, but she instead of staying to fight the Democrat incumbent in her home district, she fled to our district because she knew she couldn’t win. Vote #CowanForCongress: All of the conservative, none of the embarrassment. https://t.co/yFXZXa8epa
— John Cowan (@JohnCowanGA) June 17, 2020

Yeah, Marjorie talks tough, but she instead of staying to fight the Democrat incumbent in her home district, she fled to our district because she knew she couldn’t win. Vote #CowanForCongress: All of the conservative, none of the embarrassment. https://t.co/yFXZXa8epa
— John Cowan (@JohnCowanGA) June 17, 2020