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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia falsely claimed Tuesday that the Biden administration is accountable for the fentanyl deaths of two younger males who really died in the course of the Trump administration – and her congressional spokesperson profanely dismissed questions in regards to the false declare as irrelevant.
Michigan mom and conservative activist Rebecca Kiessling testified to the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday about how her sons Caleb, 20, and Kyler, 18, had died on July 29, 2020, on account of fentanyl poisoning from taking capsules Kiessling mentioned that they had mistakenly believed have been safer ache capsules.
Kiessling made an emotional plea for stronger federal motion to stop the importation of fentanyl over the southern border, claiming, “You’re welcoming drug dealers across our border!” (Fentanyl, a strong artificial opioid, is largely smuggled in by US residents by means of authorized ports of entry reasonably than by migrants sneaking previous unprotected stretches of the border.) Then, later within the day, Greene tweeted a video of an alternate she had with Kiessling on the listening to.
But Greene wrongly advised within the tweet that Kiessling had blamed the Biden administration for the loss of life of her sons. In reality, Kiessling had explicitly advised the committee the date of the tragedy, making clear that it occurred with greater than 5 months left within the presidency of Donald Trump.
“Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl,” Greene tweeted.
Greene, who supported the Trump presidency and has endorsed his 2024 run, has greater than 2 million followers on Twitter. Act Daily News reached out to the spokesperson for her congressional workplace, Nick Dyer, on Tuesday night time to ask for touch upon the false declare and to ask whether or not Greene had any plans to delete or appropriate the tweet.
Dyer responded in an e-mail by asking whether or not Act Daily News thinks the numerous Americans who’ve died from medication underneath Biden “care about the details” of this explicit case. He added, “Do you think they give a f**k about your bullsh*t fact checking?”
Unrelated to Act Daily News’s inquiry, a reality test discover was affixed to the underside of Greene’s tweet later Tuesday night time by means of Twitter’s “community notes” crowdsourcing characteristic. The tweet had been considered greater than 3 million occasions earlier than midday on Wednesday.
Asked in regards to the tweet, Kiessling, an anti-abortion advocate who has been lively within the Republican Party grassroots, famous in an e-mail on Wednesday morning that the variety of fentanyl deaths elevated sharply between 2020 and 2021. She argued that “if the border had been secured during the Obama administration when the federal government first knew of this issue, my sons would be alive today.” Kiessling concluded: “The whole of our federal government has failed, Congress included.”
US deaths from fentanyl and different artificial opioids first spiked underneath Obama within the mid-2010s, then continued to rise underneath Trump and accelerated once more in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with early in Biden’s presidency. There have just lately been preliminary indicators of enchancment in US overdose-death numbers, although they continue to be a lot increased than they have been in 2020 and earlier.
Greene’s false tweet in regards to the Biden administration was not her solely dishonest declare that day.
At a Tuesday assembly 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 within the state. Greene’s feedback, which she additionally posted on Twitter, featured quite a lot of lies that have been way back debunked by Sterling and lots of others.
Greene falsely claimed that “Trump won Georgia,” although he misplaced by 11,779 votes, honest and sq., in a state with a Republican governor, Republican elections chief and Republican-controlled legislature. She falsely claimed that there have been “thousands of dead voters in Georgia,” although Georgia elections officers have discovered solely 4 such circumstances within the 2020 election so far and Trump allies’ claims about varied different supposedly deceased voters have been disproven by Act Daily News and others. And she falsely claimed {that a} video confirmed employees in Atlanta’s Fulton County doing one thing nefarious whereas counting ballots, although the employees have been merely doing their jobs and although false claims in regards to the video have been debunked not solely by Sterling however by Trump’s deputy lawyer common and a Trump-appointed former US lawyer in Georgia, amongst others.
Greene has been persistently inaccurate in regards to the 2020 election. Dyer, Greene’s spokesperson, responded with a profane dismissal when requested for remark Tuesday night time about Greene’s newest false election claims.
Source: www.cnn.com