Unearthed Video Shows Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Been Psychotically Stalking AOC for Years

Most elected officials come to Washington with a goal in mind. Some want to make life better for their constituents. Some want to slash corporate taxes. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was sworn in as a freshman representative in January, clearly had a different sort of objective—to be declared the most unhinged, batshit-crazy member of Congress in recent history. And just four months into her first term, she’s nailed it.

Days after Greene aggressively accosted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Capitol, following the New York representative down a hallway shouting, “You don’t care about the American people,” and, “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?” before calling her “pathetic” and a “chicken,” CNN’s KFile unearthed a deleted video from February 2019 showing Greene and others taunting AOC’s staff outside the congresswoman’s office. (On the way there, Greene tells the camera, “We’re going to go see, we’re going to visit, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Crazy eyes. Crazy eyes. Nutty. Cortez.”) Finding the door locked, Greene and her companions speak through the mail slot, telling the congresswoman to come out. (It’s not clear if Ocasio-Cortez was actually in the office at the time.) “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I’m an American citizen,” Greene says. “I pay your salary through the taxes that you collect for me through the IRS because I’m a taxpaying citizen of the United States…. So you need to stop being a baby and stop locking your door and come out and face the American citizens that you serve. If you want to be a big girl, you need to get rid of your diaper and come out and be able to talk to the American citizens. Instead of having to use a flap, a little flap. Sad.” One of Greene’s companions creepily adds, “You can’t stay in there forever. Come out and play.”

According to KFile, with Greene that day at the Capitol was Anthony Aguero, a former congressional candidate who just happened to be inside the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection. As Greene and her pals leave Ocasio-Cortez’s office, Greene taunts: “Bye. Bye. Bye, AOC. Ocasio-Cortez. Bye, bye, baby. Bye-bye, baby. Bye-bye, little baby girl. Ocasio-Cortez—she went and hid. She couldn’t take it.”

In an email to CNN, the Georgia representative suggested there was nothing wrong with her deeply disturbing behavior, saying: “Members of Congress and all government employees are employed by the taxpayers of this country. Holding the government accountable to the people is what I’ve always believed in.” On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez told reporters that Greene is “deeply unwell and clearly needs help. And her kind of fixation has lasted for several years now.” She added that this “raise[s] concerns for other members…. I think that this is an assessment that needs to be made by the proper professional.” She also tweeted that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has “worked to protect this person from consequences (including pretending he doesn’t see it).” 

According to KFile, the day the video was shot was the same day that Greene showed up at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding that she be impeached for treason and suggested she should be executed. (In both 2018 and 2019, Greene showed support for the executions of multiple Democrats, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry, as well as FBI agents.) On that same day Greene visited California rep. Maxine Waters’s office and claimed she was “just as guilty” of treason as Pelosi. Additionally, she made pit stops at the offices of then freshman representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, during which she incorrectly claimed the women weren’t “official” because they had been sworn in on the Quran. In September 2020, Greene posted a picture online of herself holding a gun next to images of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib, telling people to go on “offense against these socialists.”

This is all, of course, on top of Greene’s promotion of QAnon; her claims that school shootings like Parkland and Sandy Hook were false flags and/or staged, and that Pelosi and Clinton wanted school shootings to happen so they could get gun control legislation passed; her belief that a deputy sheriff from Broward County, Florida, was paid off to keep quiet about the Parkland shooting being an inside job; her harassment of David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting; her insistence that there’s no evidence of a plane crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11; her wildly bigoted views; her attacks on cancer patients; and the whole Jewish-laser-beams business.

Clearly this is a person who shouldn’t be allowed within 1,000 feet of the Capitol, though it’s also clear that the GOP will most likely do nothing to stop her. Liz Cheney, though? Stone her!

Things could be going both worse and better for Matt Gaetz

On the positive side, he’s not yet in prison. On the less positive side:

Federal investigators are intensifying their sex-crimes probe of Rep. Matt Gaetz as they discuss a potential immunity arrangement with his former girlfriend and have struck a tentative deal with his one-time “wingman” who [agreed to plead] guilty [on Friday], according to multiple people familiar with the situation. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section also continues to interview potential witnesses who could provide prosecutors with evidence against Gaetz. One witness told Politico that prosecutors spent two hours asking questions about whether Gaetz (R-Fla.) or others in his circle had sex with a 17-year-old girl in 2017.

On Friday, Joel Greenberg, i.e. the “wingman” in question, changed his his original not guilty plea, admitting to a whole bunch of federal crimes—including the sex trafficking of a minor, and agreed to cooperate with DOJ investigations. Per The New York Times:

Greenberg, who was a tax collector in the Orlando area until he was indicted last year, did not implicate Mr. Gaetz by name in papers filed by prosecutors in Federal District Court in Orlando. But Mr. Greenberg admitted that he and unidentified others had paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and that he had provided her with drugs. He admitted that he “introduced the minor to other adult men, who engaged in commercial sex acts” with her, according to the documents, and that he was sometimes present. The others were not named. Prosecutors revealed in the documents that they have evidence they say corroborates Mr. Greenberg’s admissions—including a series of communications and transactions Mr. Greenberg had with the girl, and a list of dates of their sexual encounters. The inclusion of that material appeared designed to bolster the credibility of Mr. Greenberg as a witness whose truthfulness would likely be challenged by anyone who is charged based on anything he tells prosecutors.

In the hopes of ingratiating himself with Mr. Gaetz and other well-connected Florida Republicans, Mr. Greenberg has told others, he hired women to have sex with him, Mr. Gaetz and others through a website that connected people who go on dates in exchange for gifts like fine dining, travel, and allowances. During those interactions, Mr. Greenberg has told others, he and Mr. Gaetz had sex with the 17-year-old; she had claimed to be over 18, but they later learned her age.

Gaetz has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Last month, after news broke that Greenberg would likely cooperate with the feds, reporters asked his lawyer, Fritz Scheller, “Does Matt Gaetz have anything to worry about?” After bursting out laughing, Scheller composed himself and responded, “I’m sure Matt Gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today.” 

Point, counterpoint

This will be Republicans’ 9/11

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