Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a conspiracy theorist who once argued there was no evidence a plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, drew a wild comparison between the terrorist attacks that day and the alleged Chinese spy balloon . shot down. earlier this month.
The balloon flew across the country and was shot down when it reached the Atlantic Ocean to avoid damaging the ground — prompting what Greene called “pathetic, absolutely pathetic” and “a bunch of bullshit” during a local GOP event in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, Saturday.
He compared the size of the balloon, which was given as “three school buses,” to the size of an airliner…specifically, the one that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
“Don’t you forget him? He didn’t kill anyone on earth. He killed everyone on board. But he didn’t kill anyone on the ground,” Greene said. too risky to shoot down that Chinese spy balloon over rural Idaho or Montana, or any of these other states, or Alaska? They are liars!”
Greene came up with a whole new set of conspiracy theories.
“You can only see two ways,” he said, then offered three. “Either they are liars, they are cowards, or our president is being sold to China. You know what? I will go with all three.
The clip was posted on Twitter by Patriot Takeswho controls the right-wing media:
Greene, a close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and who spoke at a white nationalist event last year, has embraced 9/11 conspiracy theories in the past.
In 2018, he claimed that “there is never any evidence of a plane in the Pentagon.” He tried to return to 2021 saying “9/11 absolutely happened”.
Four planes were hijacked that day. Two were deliberately launched at the World Trade Center in Manhattan and one at the Pentagon. The fourth crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers realized what was happening and fought off the hijackers, preventing them from reaching their intended destination, the United States Capitol.
About 3,000 people died that day.
Greene’s critics on Twitter were stunned by his comparison:
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