The MeidasTouch Podcast - MTG in DEEP TROUBLE Over Her Statements on SHOOTING

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s despicable response to the Donald Trump incident in Butler, Pennsylvania. Head to /TryFum.com/MEIDAS and get a FREE GIFT with the JOURNEY PACK today when you use code MEIDAS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I think that sounds great. That's a press conference that Marjorie Taylor Greene previously gave where she said, America is all about cheeseburgers and guns. And this fetishization of weapons of war, AR-15s, and this bizarre braggadocio dystopian way has been characteristic of Marjorie Taylor Greene. And so while the media wants to both sides these issues, both sides need to tone down the rhetoric. I agree the rhetoric needs to be toned down, but it's not a both sides issue. This was always coming from the MAGA Republicans. And even after MAGA Republican Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, went on TV and says, we need to tone down this rhetoric.

We all need to just tone it down. What did Marjorie Taylor Greene do right away, as a lot of MAGA Republicans did? Here's what Marjorie Taylor Greene posted. She wrote, and terrorize innocent Americans who would tell the truth about it. The Democrat Party is flat out evil. And yesterday they tried to murder President Trump. Folks, this isn't a both sides issue. This type of rhetoric comes from MAGA Republicans.

And I'm not going to gaslight you the way other corporate media does. We're going to call it like it is. Democrats had nothing to do with this at all. I mean, the shooter's been identified by the FBI. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. He was a registered Republican. He was identified as someone who hung out with friends who would wear or hang out with people when he did, a loner. But when he hung out with people, they would wear trumpets. He was identified as someone who hung out with friends who would wear or hang out with people when he did, a loner. But when he hung out with people, they would wear trumpets. He was described by others as always taking the conservative position on issues in his debate classes. He would wear the Second Amendment paraphernalia all the time.

When he was involved in the shooting, he wore the Second Amendment paraphernalia. So look where this rhetoric is coming from. And it's rhetoric like that that has no place in our system. Marjorie Taylor Greene then posts the following. We will not back down. President Trump put his fist in the air and shouted, fight. And that is exactly what we are going to do. We are going to win this election.

We're going to elect Donald Trump. And oh, yes, we are going to fight, exclamation point. This is just the beginning. She's as close to Donald Trump as anyone. She's someone who's a leader of the Republican Party today. So when she says that, that's where it's coming from. It's not a both sides issue. Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene said the following, and this was at, I think, a young Republican gala. She said that if she was leading the insurrection, the insurrectionists would have been armed with guns. Do you remember when she said this? Here, play this clip. Then January 6th happens, and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing along with Steve Bannon here. And I'm going to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized

that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would have been armed. Or when Marjorie Taylor Greene gave this speech and she goes, we love President Trump. How about you guys? We love Jesus. We love God. We love guns. Here, play this clip.

All right, Georgia. How are we doing today? Well, I am very excited to be with you guys. I'm Marjorie Taylor Greene, newly elected for Georgia's 14th District in Northwest Georgia. The land of freedom. We love our president. We love President Trump. How about you guys?

We also love Jesus very much. We love God and we're grateful to be Americans, right? And we love our guns. I've got mine today. Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested, this was kind of consistent thing that she would do, is that she would say that various shootings were false flags designed to persuade Republicans to go along with more gun control. She would spread these despicable conspiracy theories right after shootings when it became clear that there needs to always be clear that there needs to be common sense gun control.

She would spread these lies. Here, play this clip. All right, Georgia, how are we doing today? Well, I am very excited to be with you guys. I'm Marjorie Taylor Greene, newly elected for Georgia's 14th district in Northwest Georgia. The land of freedom. We love our president. We love President Trump.

How about you guys? We also love Jesus very much. We love God and we're grateful to be Americans, right? And we love our guns. I've got mine today. And just so you see, this is another, just what she consistently did after the Las Vegas shooting on October 1st at Mandalay Bay. She says that that was, she tried, she spread the conspiracy.

That was a false flag as well. Here, play this clip. Hey friends, I've got a question for you. How do you get avid gun owners and people that support the second amendment to give up their guns and go along with anti-gun legislation. How do you do that? Maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative, very likely to vote Republican, very likely to be Trump supporters, very likely to be pro-Second Amendment, and very likely to own guns.

You make them scared. You make them victims, and you change their mindset, and then possibly you can pass anti-gun legislation. Is that what happened in Las Vegas? Is that why the Country Music Festival was targeted? Because those would be the people, would be the ones that we would relate to? Are they trying to terrorize our mindset and change our minds on the Second Amendment? Is that what's going on here? I have a lot of questions about that. I don't believe Stephen Paddock was a lone wolf. I don't believe that he pulled this off all by himself. And I know most

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everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down agreed and what is your message because you talked about some of the rhetoric that is uh focused on Donald. We don't have, we could give him. And look, here's another clip of Marjorie Taylor Greene, where she yells at a reporter from another country. And she says, like, go back to your country. We do gun, we have guns in America. Go back to your country. Here, play this clip.

And it's our job to defend the second amendment. By and large, we don't have guns in the UK. That is true. But we don't have mass shootings either. Children aren't scared to go to school. You have mass stabbings, lady. You have all kinds of murder. And you've got laws against that.

Nothing like the same rates here. Well, you can go back to your country and worry about your no guns. We like ours here. You know what? I'll never forget this moment either. Remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene chased David Hogg, one of the survivors of the Parkland school shootings, to troll him about her love of guns?

Just think about this. David Hogg survived a school shooting in Parkland, and he was on Capitol Hill to speak to lawmakers, okay? MAGA Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene basically stalked him and followed him and yelled at him. She is a leader of the Republican Party. And again, this isn't hyperbole. I'm going to show you the video of what she did to a survivor of a school shooting. Play this clip. How did you get over 30 appointments with senators? How'd you do that? How did you get shooting play this clip guards with guns, there would be no mass shootings at schools. You know that? That's when some bad

guys with guns, with a good guy with a gun. And I'll show you this clip of Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz, where he called Marjorie Taylor Greene out and said, look, you all want to ban books? What are you talking about? Focus on common sense gun control. Here, play this clip. AR-15s, you know, seen what those bullets do to children? You know why you don't hunt with an AR-15 with a deer? Because there's nothing left. And there's nothing left of these kids when people go into school and murder them while they're trying to read.

You guys are worried about banning books. Dead kids can't read. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene posted the following. She goes, I have so many questions about how this 20 year old was able to nearly pull off assassinating President Trump by himself. This reeks of something a lot more sinister and bigger. There are too many things that do not make sense. I don't care what anyone says about me saying this because everyone knows we are all thinking it. Fine, call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't give a damn.

The insane left has been fantasizing out loud about killing Trump for years. Prove me wrong, she says. No one's been fantasizing about that. When you fantasize and fetishize weapons of war without control at all, when you fetishize irresponsible gun ownership, proliferation of these weapons of war, when you use the violent rhetoric that you do, not a bold sides issue, because I don't hear that from democratic leaders using language like this.

I don't hear it, it's despicable, and I'm just gonna do what we do here at the Midas Touch Network, just keep calling it out, okay? Hit subscribe, let's get to three million together. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.