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https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1372628490227486728
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has set herself apart from other Donald Trump superfans in the Republican caucus through her lurid circulation of conspiracy theories, many of them racist. The most notorious one was a post suggesting that California wildfires had been set deliberately by space-based laser beams controlled by the Rothschilds, in order to clear land for rail stations (which were ultimately never built).
This belief is not (yet) official canon within the Republican Party, so Greene has been taking steps to distance herself from it. “This is a story that some leftist ‘journalist’ — really he’s an activist — wrote a hit piece on me and titled it ‘Jewish Space Lasers,’” Greene told Newsmax TV host Greg Kelly. “You know, the left-wing media, they just run the same lies over and over again and they call me an anti-Semite and say that I said something like Jewish space lasers, and I never did.”
To be clear, the story, which I wrote, did not say she used the words “Jewish space laser.” It accurately reproduced her entire post blaming the Rothschilds, and I noted that “the Rothschild family has featured heavily in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories since at least the 19th century.”