I see a lot of convos today about Marjorie Taylor Greene's past controversial comments, thanks to @CNN & @mmfa
McCarthy told @axios he is disturbed/plans to speak with her
This narrative misses crucial context: NONE of this is new to political observers/GOP leaders. A thread >>
On June 17 ( a week after the June 9 #GA14 primary but well before an Aug 11 runoff) @MZanona & I reported on a trove of her racist/Islamophobic/QAnon comments
MTG is a product of MAGA internet. She built a following posting hours of videos of this stuff politico.com/news/2020/06/1…
Among the worst MTG comments:
She called the '18 midterms “an Islamic invasion of our government”
She said Dems are “trying to keep the black people in a modern-day form of slavery”
“The most mistreated group of people in the United States today are white males"