Below is a fact check of 11 false allegations that Greene tweeted just last month, including three related allegations about the integrity of the election. After CNN emailed her convention office to give her the opportunity to comment on any of these findings, her communications director, Nick Dyer, had only a brief response: ‘Here’s our comment:’ CNN is fake news. ‘
Facts first: That’s just not true – even the fact that the insurgents near the Capitol could have listened to Trump’s speech on their phones, or been inspired by Trump’s previous rhetoric. There was more than enough time for people to walk about one and a half miles from The Ellipse Park, where Trump gave a speech that ended before 1:15 p.m., to the Capitol, where rioters were still present more than three hours after Trump closed. In fact, the FBI assert that some participants in the uprising made this step, including one who allegedly went to her hotel and then to the Capitol after the Trump speech.
White supremacists and the uprising
The abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America tweeted the following about the uprising: “Anti-choice extremists, white supremacists and violent misogynists all rallied this week to attack our country. But the thing is, these groups are already very “What we saw was terrible and devastating. But it was not surprising.”
Greene
reacted that the Capitol attack was “terrible and should not have happened” – but then added that all the people who died as a result of the uprising were white, “so I’m not sure where your white supremacy comes from. “
Facts first: According to the FBI, it is true, not ‘bs’, that white sovereigns were involved in the uprising. (Of course, the fact that people killed at the Capitol were white does not mean that white supremacists could not have been among the perpetrators. Some of the people killed were participants in the uprising. And white supremacists sometimes killed other whites .)
The FBI claims that Bryan Betancur, who is accused of involvement in the uprising, “is a self-confessed white supremacist who has made statements to law enforcement officials that he is a member of several white supremacist organizations.” The FBI claims that a confidential source says another man charged is Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, “a recognized white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer”.
A third man charged, Robert Keith Packer, is allegedly the man seen during the uprising wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” shirt. The FBI claims that the shirt “appears to be a symbol of the Nazi hate ideology.”
A fourth man charged, Anthime Joseph (Tim) Gionet, is an Internet personality known for his role in the racist and anti-Semitic “all-right” movement and who attended the infamous White Nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. has. , in 2017.
The charges against these men were announced after the tweet of Greene’s ‘bs’, but there was never any reason to accuse NARAL of alleging that white supremacists were present at the Capitol. In addition, a variety of symbols were seen during the white uprising at the Capitol during the uprising.
The publication Insider reported that Gionet disputed the claim that he was a white nationalist. Packer did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment before being arrested. Betancur and Hale-Cusanelli did not immediately list attorneys in an online federal system.
Election fraud
Greene
tweeted that “there was a LOT of voter fraud on a scale that should terrify every American, regardless of political party.”
Facts first: This is again just false. There is no evidence of mass voter fraud – as a Republican election officials across the country and Trump-appointed former attorney general William Barr acknowledge. On the contrary, there was isolated cases of alleged fraud by lone voters, too small to influence the outcome.
In court, even Trump’s own legal team often refused to plead mass fraud, but instead focused on complaints about law and process. But the Trump team lost after case anyway.
The integrity of the election
We deal with three related claims under this one heading.
Greene
repeatedly called the presidential election “
stolen“His
repeatedly refers to some of President-elect Joe Biden’s election votes as “
deceitful. “And its explicit
assert that Biden ‘lost’ the election and Trump ‘won’.
Facts first: All three claims are untrue. Biden won the election, fairly and legally. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Trump’s various allegations of alleged fraud and alleged electoral poaching have been rejected in court and long debunked by officials and fact-checkers.
The presidential election in Georgia
Greene has criticized Gabriel Sterling, a senior official in the office of Georgia’s leading election official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. His
tweeted, “You hosted a stolen November 3rd election. You idiots at the SOS sent out millions of absent ballot papers to anyone while GA was an open state.”
Facts first: Georgia’s presidential election was not ‘stolen’. Biden won the state scholarship, as confirmed three counts of the ballot papers and a audit of some voters’ signatures.
Georgia was not one of the countries that sent an absent ballot to every registered voter; a vote was sent only to a voter who requested one. Georgia needs no apology for being absent, but this policy without apology was created in 2005 by the state’s Republican leaders, not by Raffensperger himself.
Georgia Senate Election
Greene
tweeted: “… Georgia’s state leaders have refused to listen to taxpayers in Georgia. They have refused to change anything after allowing @ realDonaldTrump’s election to be stolen. And they refused to #StopTheSteaI with our two senate seats.”
Facts first: There was no “stealing” of Georgia’s two Senate seats; Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won it fair and square in the run-off elections in January. Their Republican opponents, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both conceded defeat.
The Pennsylvania presidential election
Greene
tweeted, “202,377 more votes cast than in Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania! This is called election fraud.”
Facts first: False again. Civil servants and fact-checkers have repeatedly explained that the assertion that Pennsylvania had more votes than registered voters is simply not true; Greene called up a wrong figure from a Republican lawmaker who did so relied on incomplete data.
The first amendment
The day after Twitter banned Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account, Greene
tweeted“Yesterday they crushed the first amendment. You can see what comes next. I promise to do everything in my power to protect the American amendment rights from American.”
Facts first: No one crushed the first amendment on January 8th. Greene did not explicitly say she was talking about Twitter’s decision to suspend Trump’s account, but if she did, she was clearly inaccurate. The first amendment bans the government from silencing citizens, but it does not require companies, including social media companies such as Twitter, to allow citizens to speak freely.
Violence in 2020
Greene
tweeted, “ZERO Democrats have condemned the political violence of BLM / Antifa terrorists that lasted all of 2020. Instead, everyone has ignited the flames of hatred.”
Facts first:
Numerous Democrats – including Biden, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and senior members of the party’s congressional caucus – condemnation and looting last year while also supporting peaceful protests against Black Rives Matter against racism and police brutality.
Republicans are entitled to argue that the Democrats should have issued such convictions more forcefully or frequently, or that they should have been more explicit in identifying the perpetrators, but it is only inaccurate to say or suggest that they convictions did not issue at all.
