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Posted: 2021-07-06T07:13:35Z | Updated: 2021-07-06T12:43:44Z GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Ripped For Reprehensible New Claim About COVID-19 | HuffPost

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Ripped For Reprehensible New Claim About COVID-19

The Georgia Republican also slammed Fox News in a ranting message from America to the swamp.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ’s latest comments about the coronavirus drew fierce backlash on Monday.

In a threaded “message from America to the swamp” that she posted on Twitter, the Georgia Republican bombastically declared that “no one cares” about the more transmissible delta variant of COVID-19 that is now making its way across the United States “or any other variant.”

“All voters are over Covid,” the QAnon conspiracy theory-endorsing lawmaker claimed, even though around 11,000 new infections are being recorded daily.

Elsewhere in the thread, Greene said Fox News was part of the “fake news media ” and told people who “don’t like America or our flag” to “get the hell out of our GREAT country & go live in some other shithole Socialist or Communist country.”

Greene has previously likened House mask mandates to the Holocaust and praised people who refuse to receive a coronavirus vaccine, which scientists worldwide have said is key to thwarting the pandemic.

Her latest claims were beyond the pale for many Twitter users:

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