- Now I'm saying according to Q.
Again, I don't have any proof of this,
but we're talking about who is Q,
so I'm gonna tell you what he says.
According to him, many in our government
are actively worshiping Satan.
- [Van] - That's Marjorie Taylor Greene,
a far-right conspiracy theorist,
a former CrossFit gym owner,
and a Facebook status come to life.
I'm Van Lathan, and this is the story
of how House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
went from supporting a theory claiming the government
is filled with Satan-worshiping pedophiles,
to working alongside them.
- These are interesting things to look at,
and so I wanted to talk to you about them.
I'm not presenting them that they're fact
but I am presenting them that I'm hoping they're facts.
- [Van] Marjorie Taylor Greene was born
in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1974.
She attended South Forsyth High School
in Cumming, Georgia in Forsyth County,
a region deeply rooted in racism.
Her formative years were spent in a county
stolen from Black people in the 1912 campaign
that has been called the most successful
racial cleansing in US history.
After a fatal rape of a white woman
allegedly by two black men in 1912,
the county's hostility towards non-white residents
began to take shape.
Over the next few months, Black citizenry in Forsyth
was driven out by the thousands.
"The Daily Beast" notes,
This is a space that didn't delineate
white and colored spaces during the Jim Crow era
because there were no black residents to marginalize.
This rampant racism in Forsyth
continued throughout the next several decades
as the county stayed nearly all white for over 75 years,
much into Marjorie's formative years and teens.
In 1987, when Marjorie was in middle school,
civil rights leader Hosea Williams and other activists
marched twice in Forsyth
in an effort to prove black people
and white people can stand together.
They were met with rocks, bottles and mud thrown at them
from members of the KKK and their supporters.
(marchers chanting) - The marchers were clearly
outnumbered by their antagonists who lined
the road in a scene that looked like something
out of America's darker past.
- [Antagonists] Go home (bleep)!
Go home (bleep)!
- [Van] Forsyth County has been all white for decades
and many residents say they want to keep it that way.
We haven't had none up here since the first of the century.
I don't think, we've done okay without 'em
and I don't believe we need 'em up here now.
So was it the front row seat to Forsyth's rampant racism
and growing up in an all white community
that explains Marjorie's penchant for incendiary
divisive rhetoric?
- The most mistreated group of people
in the United States today are white males.
They are blamed for everything.
They're the scapegoat.
Everything bad in America is because of white men.
That's what you're told.
That's what the media wants to tell you.
That's what the Democrats want to tell you.
They want to blame everything on white men
because white men are bad and white men are racist
and white men want to hold everybody down.
They just want to be successful themselves.
You know, it's not fair.
White men are not the bad guys, everybody, they're not.
So I'm going to stand up for them and say that.
- [Van] As Politico notes,
- I know a ton of white people that are as lazy
and sorry, and probably worse than black people I know.
- [Van] After purchasing her father's construction company
in 2002 and opening a CrossFit gym
AKA the place where people wanna become trucks,
Marjorie was bitten by a radioactive conspiracy bug.
In 2017 she started publishing articles
on the now defunct website called,
"American Truth Seekers."
In an effort to seek the truth, Marjorie penned an article
In another article Marjorie praised Q Anon,
the bonkers right wing conspiracy theory
that claims Donald Trump, the guy who was friends
with Jeffrey Epstein, is leading a secret war
against Satan-worshiping pedophiles.
- Q is a Patriot.
We know that for sure.
- [Van] This isn't where Marjorie's outlandish theories end.
For the sake of both time and sanity,
here just a few of Marjorie Taylor Green's past beliefs.
She claims mass shootings like the one in Las Vegas,
Parkland and Sandy Hook were staged
in an effort to introduce tighter gun control laws.
She suggested a plane never crashed
into the Pentagon on 9/11.
She believes Obama is a Muslim.
She suggested the Nancy Pelosi
should be executed for treason.
She suggested that in 2018, California's wildfires
were caused by space lasers linked
to a Jewish investment firm,
and many more claims that seem insane at first glance.
And then still seem insane on second glance.
So with the bar to work in government,
currently on an elevator falling beneath
the core of the earth
Marjorie decided her voice needed to be heard
outside of the dark corners of the internet, like Facebook.
So she ran for a House seat and won.
Marjorie represents George's 14th Congressional District,
which has 700,000 residents, 85% of which are white,
the New Yorker adds,
On Marjorie's first day in office,
she wore a mask that read "Trump won,"
even though he famously lost.
On Biden's first full day in office
Marjorie filed articles of impeachment against
the newly-minted president for abuse of power,
also known as taking office after being
democratically elected by the people.
But her past and also her present are catching up to her.
On February 1st, House Democrats introduced a resolution
to remove Marjorie from her two committee assignments
rendering her useless, legislatively.
Hell, even Mitch McConnell branded her affinity
for conspiracy theories and loony lies
and that's coming from this guy,
"Think of me as the Grim Reaper."
As controversy about her previous comments, like her support
for Q-Anon and executing Nancy Pelosi grew,
Marjorie took to the floor of the House
claiming she's changed a lot since a few days ago.
- When I started finding misinformation, lies,
things that were not true in these Q-Anon posts
I stopped believing it.
You see school shootings are absolutely real.
I also want to tell you 9/11 absolutely happened.
I remember that day crying all day long
and watching it on the news.
- On February 4th, the house voted to strip Marjorie
of her committee assignments with 11 Republicans
joining every Democrat that voted.
'Course nowadays getting outed in Washington
for spewing conspiracy theories
and threatening violence will only help the long run
as evidenced by her continued support
from a far right donors.
Now a crowd of tinfoil hat wearing supporters
will not look at this as defeat
but rather the mainstream establishment
trying to silence a truth-telling outlier.
Trump may be gone but the path he laid
is well intact, and people like Marjorie Taylor Greene
are taking it to Washington.
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