From conspiracy theories to Congress: The Marjorie Taylor Greene story
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🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Who is the Congresswoman who has split the Republican party with her toxic views?
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| 0:00.0 | Neat, new U.S. Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene. |
| 0:09.7 | There's possible satanic worship and maybe all these scary things, what's considered |
| 0:14.7 | conspiracy theories, really maybe true. |
| 0:18.8 | Approach Trump Republican representing the people of Northwest Georgia, Greene has some |
| 0:24.6 | exotic beliefs. |
| 0:26.6 | For example, that Jewish financiers are behind natural catastrophes. |
| 0:31.8 | Taylor Greene is a crank but she doesn't come from nowhere, she has a base, she has supporters |
| 0:36.0 | and that's one reason that the Republican party has been a little bit reluctant to really |
| 0:41.0 | sever its links from her entirely. |
| 0:43.4 | Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene and how did she rise to national notoriety? |
| 0:49.0 | You're listening to stories of our times and the times and the Sunday times, I'm David |
| 0:52.4 | Aronovich. |
| 0:53.6 | Today, from conspiracy theories to Congress, the Marjorie Taylor Greene story. |
| 1:14.8 | This week many Republicans will gather in Florida for the Conservative Political Action Conference |
| 1:20.2 | and they have a strategic decision to make. |
| 1:22.9 | Are they to continue to be Donald Trump's Republican party, the party of January 6th? |
| 1:28.6 | Or will there be a return to the more establishment republicanism of the past? |
| 1:33.6 | I'm Josh Blancy, I'm Washington Bureau Chief for the Sunday Times, which means covering |
| 1:39.5 | DC politics but also well beyond that across America, particularly election campaigns. |
| 1:45.2 | The end of impeachment, that was the last unfinished business if you like of the Trump |
| 1:48.9 | administration and there is this sense of exhalation and wondering what's next, that's |
| 1:54.3 | best. |
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