When she isn’t busy attacking US embassies for flying Pride flags, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) other current priority is her ‘Fire Fauci’ legislation (HR 2316).
The act, which is very unlikely to pass, accuses Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of failing to “provide Americans with accurate information about the COVID–19 pandemic and has shown distrust in the American private sector and American ingenuity.”
Greene appeared on Steve Bannon’s Real America’s Voice show yesterday to explain why she wants to see Fauci dismissed. She also happened to drop into the conversation her disbelief in evolution.
Bannon asked Greene to clarify why she appeared to oppose scientists researching how viruses may mutate to cause harm to humans. Greene said she was against any efforts to alter or manufacture viruses to be more harmful, even if only in the name of research. Watch from the 2’35” mark below.
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“I don’t buy it because I don’t believe in evolution,” responded Greene to Bannon’s query. “I don’t believe in that type of so-called ‘science,” she says, using her fingers to indicate quotes around the word ‘science’.
“I don’t believe in evolution, I believe in God. And these viruses were not making people sick until they created them and made them into … weaponized them to be able to attach to our cells and make us sick.”
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A longtime critic of Fauci, Greene’s position has hardened further since the release of emails from Fauci from the early days of the pandemic. The emails were made public following a Freedom of Information request.
Between 2014-2019, the US public health agency, the National Institute of Health, gave $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via a grant to the New York-based non-profit group EcoHealth Alliance.
This was intended for the purpose of researching bat coronaviruses, which were already known to pose a potential risk to humans if they ever crossed from one species to the other.
Early last year, as President Trump made suggestions that Covid might have emerged in a Wuhan Lab, Fauci publicly said he believed that it was more likely Covid-19 jumped from bats to humans rather than being something artificially or deliberately manipulated into existence.
Peter Daszak, head of EcoHealth Alliance, later emailed Dr. Fauci in April 2020, praising him as “brave” for speaking out against the lab leak theory.
For Greene and other conspiracists, this appears to suggest that Fauci and the lab in Wuhan were in cahoots.
Last week, Fauci rubbished the idea that this email proved anything.
“You can misconstrue it however you want,” he told CNN. “That email was from a person to me saying ‘thank you’ for whatever it is he thought I said, and I said that I think the most likely origin is a jumping of species. I still do think it is, at the same time as I’m keeping an open mind that it might be a lab leak.”
“The idea I think is quite farfetched that the Chinese deliberately engineered something so that they could kill themselves as well as other people. I think that’s a bit far out.”
Fauci is the top adviser to President Biden on Covid-19 and is respected as one of the world’s leading experts on viruses. Last Thursday, following the release of the emails, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki defended Fauci, saying, “The president and the administration feel that Dr. Fauci has played an incredible role in getting the pandemic under control, being a voice to the public throughout the course of this pandemic.”
Greene has consistently spoken out against Covid restrictions and mask-wearing. She was mocked earlier in the year for sharing her “Covid-protection” workout, called the idea of vaccine passports “Biden’s Mark of the Beast”, and was among several GOP lawmakers to refuse to wear masks on the house floor last month.
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GaysForTrump
Of course, no article on Hunter dropping the N word. And his racial slurs.
But yes, let’s have another article on a republican.
Are you okay with the President’s son using Racial slurs? Seems so.
(Yes, Cam, I am waiting for your overly played response. ‘Deflection, yada, yada, yada…The article isn’t about Biden’s son…’)
Well it’s because these selective journalist only have political outrage. Whatever fits their political narrative. Cowards without a backbone.
Cam
@GaysForTrump said…
(Yes, Cam, I am waiting for your overly played response. ‘Deflection, yada, yada, yada…The article isn’t about Biden’s son…’)
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I love the fact that the right wing troll actually thinks by mentioning this it’s going to stop me from pointing out that he’s deflecting from the anti-LGBTQ bigot and science denier Republican.
I also LOVE a self-burn. Troll, when you YOURSELF call out your deflection, well, that’s just like candy. Nice to see I’m still living in your head no matter what screename you’re in.
mailliw110
They didn’t mention anything about that fake moon landing either!
cuteguy
@GaysforChump
Why do you hate yourself so much? Spend less time on here and seek a therapist who enjoys a challenge
Chrisk
@Jewsforthegaschamber
I don’t know. Maybe because Hunter isn’t a Government official that doesn’t effect me one bit.
Bonerboy
Dear Cam. You are doing God’s work, brother!! Keep it up. We out here really appreciate you!
lilithhelborn
So you’re comparing someone saying that possibly someone who IS NOT a politician MIGHT have said something a long time ago to someone who IS a politician presently saying completely stupid shit and having it on video? You’re clutching at the thinist straws of whataboutism- and it’s not working. And you know it doesn’t even work- even with you. You knew it was stupid when you said it and you said it anyway. Thant and pretending you represent ANY gay person show the absolute dearth of reasoning or facts that so-called conservatives bring to the……not really a discussion and certainly not debate. More of you trying to counter news story after news story with basically random words so long as they hint at any suggestion that possibly someone who is not a conservative might’ve someday done something maybe a long time ago and THAT excuses and ACTUAL TREASON AND SEDITION, violence and attempted destruction of our democracy. It simply does not hurt which is why no one with any sort of values his left Republican party- which is why it is now smaller than both independents and registered Democrats. It’s simply not working for you
Mister P
Evolution is not a political narrative. It is a scientific fact. It is incredibly irresponsible for a congressman to dispute it.
Get a grip Trump licker.
Chrisk
I don’t care what facts this raving loon chooses not to believe. It doesn’t make it any less true. Not to mention it had nothing to do with Fauci and the virus she was babbling on about.
WSnyder
Her kind should worry more about extinction than evolution.
Heywood Jablowme
Just because MTG never evolves doesn’t mean the rest of the world isn’t evolving.
Cam
A Science Denier who:
Uses Hair Dye,
Flies on Planes,
Uses Cars,
Wears Clothing made out of artificial created fabric
Uses a Smart Phone
Uses a Computer
These phony religious people are simply liars that trot out their “Religion” whenever they need an excuse for some ridiculous lie they want to push.
Chrisk
Yep. Just like most Christians. They’ll just pick and choose what to believe and follow while bashing others with it.
Kangol2
Someone should repeat your list to Moron Taylor Greene and record what she has to say or, if she’s stumped, her grunts and growls. Maybe she’ll say God flies the plane, etc.
ptn2719
Between their mismanagement of HIV/AIDS in the early days, and their epic mismanagement of COVID-19 (to stroke Trump’s ego), I will personally NEVER trust any US government agency again with regard to infectious diseases, especially the CDC. For that matter, despite the change of administration, I’m still not sure if I’m being told the truth about this or not by our government! I will, however, trust the non-politicized World Health Organization (aka the people who refused to lie for Trump). They didn’t lie to us for almost a year.
Kangol2
I hear you on the CDC, though the common denominator in both cases was Republican presidents, Reagan and Don the Con. The CDC has performed a bit better at times (cf. H1N1, Ebola, etc.).
Cam
The one thing in common. Republicans were in charge both times.
Fahd
As far as I remember, MT Greene lost all of her House committee assignments. She’s effectively a bump on a log in the House. Her remaining value to the Repuglicans, I guess, is to spew stupidity aggressively to try to keep the base fired up. After all, it got her elected.
Too bad we don’t have more stories about what must be so fundamentally wrong in a congressional district that the Repuglican party there would nominate her and the majority of the electorate there would choose her as their representative. What has gone wrong (not improved) in this part of Georgia?
What federal aid is needed?
People in the US are anxious to leave the pandemic behind, but making Dr. Fauci the bogeyman might keep some of the Trump base engaged enough to come out and vote in 2022. These voters need to vote against someone/something. The Democrats better get busy.
Ginger Tom
She believes in Jewish laser beams from outer space but she doesn’t believe in evolution. You pays your money and you takes your choice. The only evolution I don’t believe in is her personal evolution.
rbernard
It boggles my mind MTG was duly elected to represent her Georgia district.
It makes me wonder what kind of people would elect a a person like MTG to represent them?
It is a community that I will never visit or allow a nickel of my money to knowingly flow to.
Jimmyhowcome
The only reason she won was that she ran unopposed when the democratic nominee withdrew from the race. She could have won with only a handful of votes. However, it is frightening that she won the primary ( there were 8 candidates) by 57%! It’s still scary that she still has supporters, though.
Raphael Klarfeld
This woman is another sociopath republican, who ran for office because she is a racist. She is realizing that the USA is a diverse population, whose color is changing racially to a blend of races, and that they will outnumber white people, who will no longer have their “white privilege” advantages. The playing field is leveling and they do not like it. More white people are on welfare than black people. They want to make it sound like people of color are absorbing all of our resources. Why does she want to hurt the poor white people by taking it away. She makes no sense because she is just crazy with rage.
Kangol2
She’s racist but she’s also homophobic, transphobic and xenophobic. She established her anti-trans bonafides fairly quickly. She definitely has competition when it comes to wacked out Republican Congresspeople, though. This is the same caucus that includes Louis Gohmert, Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Gym Jordan, Lauren Boebert, and a number of other wackadoodles.
Mack
Her comments goes to prove you just can’t fix stupid.
Josh in OR
An evolutionary dead end doesnt ‘believe’ in an observable, measurable, provable fact of life.
What a surprise. Here’s hoping her her kids are as sterile as the space between her terrorist loving ears, so that there aren’t any grandchildren to burden with her clearly recessive genes…
Ambonec
Proof she’s a Vogon, spouting poetry
tomch52
If “she” doesn’t believe in science & evolution but believes in “god” then “she” should cancel her health insurance coverage & let “god” do his thing!
Vera Delmar
MTG looks like a horse…even her teeth look too big for her mouth! I think she’s proof that evolution doesn’t always end up well! Her daddy shouldn’t have mated with a mare, or maybe it was her mom who shouldn’t have mated with a stallion.
greekboy
Honey, we can tell just by watching you that you dont believe in evolution.
JRamonMc
So if she believes in God and not evolution, does that mean she believes god created covid to weed out all the evilness in the world? She’s batshit crazy!
Celtic
I believe she is on to something! She looks apish to me.
mozzer
She really should, b-tch looks like a missing link, cave woman to me!
Itsonlythetruth
When is this bat shit crazy woman going to be locked away?
missvamp
let’s hope for sooner rather than later.
LMG
I COMPLETELY AGREE with M.T. Greene. I absolutely do NOT believe in “Evolution” – and she is living proof of that premise!
scotty
just checking….yep shes still a vapid c u n t
Tombear
Are the gays for Trump kinda like the ex gay movement? Like, maybe 12 gay Trump supporters?