is responsible for Michigan brothers’ fentanyl deaths during Trump administration


Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia falsely claimed Tuesday that the Biden administration was responsible for the fentanyl deaths of two young men who actually died during the Trump administration – and her congressional spokesperson profanely dismissed questions about the false claim as irrelevant.

Greene’s false tweet about the Biden administration was not her only dishonest claim that day.

At a Tuesday meeting of congressional Republicans’ caucus on “election integrity,” Greene castigated a Georgia Republican election official, Gabriel Sterling, who has repeatedly vouched for the integrity of the 2020 election in the state.

Greene’s comments, which she also posted on Twitter, featured a variety of lies that were long ago debunked by Sterling and many others.

Greene falsely claimed that “the rump won Georgia,” though he lost by 11,779 votes, fair and square, in a state with a Republican governor, Republican elections chief and Republican-controlled legislature.

She falsely claimed that there were “thousands of dead voters in Georgia,” though Georgia elections officials have found only four such cases in the 2020 election to date and the rump allies’ claims about various other supposedly deceased voters have been disprovenby others.

And she falsely claimed that a video showed workers in Atlanta’s Fulton County doing something nefarious while counting ballots, though the workers were simply doing their jobs and though false claims about the video have been debunked not only by Sterling but by the rump’s deputy attorney general and a rump-appointed former US attorney in Georgia, among others. 

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