Parkland parent tears up representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

TALLAHASSEE – A video by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Enchanting David Hogg, a gun control activist and survivor of the Parkland shooting, surfaced online Wednesday, sparking a new wave of outrage over Republicans history of Georgia over the questioning of a dark chapter in Florida that left 17 dead.

Greene, in the video, which was apparently filmed just weeks after the 2018 Parkland shooting, calls Hogg a “coward” because he walked away from her, complaining that Hogg was unable to meet with senators. “He had 30 appointments where he spoke to senators. I did not have to talk to anyone, ‘Greene said, adding’ Guess what? I’m a gun owner. I’m an American citizen. And I have nothing. But this man with his George Soros funding and his biggest liberal funding got it all. ”

Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was one of the victims during the shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, post the video on Twitter as part of his campaign to highlight Greene’s position on the issue.

“She is going to confront her lies,” he said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “She is a deceiver. She has no place but the halls of Congress. I do intend to bring her testimony of my daughter’s murder. ”

In the video, Greene can also follow Hogg down the street as he walks toward the U.S. capital. Greene asks why Hogg supports the “red flag laws,” which are measures that allow police to ask a judge to take away someone’s firearms if the person is considered a potential danger. Florida’s then government. Rick Scott, a Republican, has signed a measure that includes a red flag law in the aftermath of the Parkland murder.

Guttenberg confronted first-year lawmakers online last week after reports surfaced on social media two years ago of how Greene agrees with conspiracy theories that the Parkland shooting was staged. He promised to eventually meet Greene face-to-face so he could prove to her that his 14-year-old daughter Jaime had been shot dead. The congresswoman has already become a political lightning for the adoption of the QAnon conspiracy theory and for a long series of racist comments before being elected to a conservative district in November.

Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Fla.) Distributed the video in November 2019. In the interview, Guttenberg said he knew the video was taken before Greene was elected to Congress last year, but said he only became aware of it Tuesday. evening.

The discovery of Greene’s comments from the past has already caused a firestorm for Republicans of Democrats and their allies. A super-PAC aimed at Senator Marco Rubio – ‘Retire Rubio’ – questions why the senator did not condemn Greene’s ‘harassment’ of Hogg.

Neither the office of Rubio nor Scott responded to requests for comment on the Greene video and her condemnation of red flag laws.

On Wednesday, Hogg weighs in the videoand said on Twitter that “this is only 1/10 of the 1% of those who support gun control, after surviving gun violence.”

He added: ‘Do you think we want to do that? @mtgreenee. F — no – I would rather be a university student, but I and others can not and do you know why? Bc corrupt politicians like you have made it so that it is the survivors of gun violence to end gun violence bc. You can ‘t do your damn job. ”

When asked by her office for comment on Greene’s video, she points to a statement the Georgia representative posted on Twitter last week where she calls ‘gun-free zones’ a failure and blames the shooting of the school’s resource officer, Scot Peterson, in Parkland. While the shooting was going on, Peterson, according to the state commission set up to investigate the incident, took cover and withdrew.

Rep Ted Deutch, a South Florida Democrat whose district includes high school, tweeted it on Wednesday afternoon the pain and trauma that the attack left on the community still resonates today. “I encouraged the survivors to come to DC to confront members of Congress about their cowardice and failure to act,” he said. “I know they’re coming back to confront these cruel, despicable lies.”

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democrat, said Hogg showed “Courage in his work for arms reform.” She called Greene’s behavior “cowardly” and said “it is a political stunt and indecent of a member of Congress.”