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GOP Candidate Trafficked Other Conspiracies

August 25, 2020 at 1:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In the years before she ran for office, GOP congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote two conspiracy-laden blog posts speculating that the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to one counter-protester’s death was an ‘inside job’ and promoting a debunked conspiracy alleging some Democratic Party leaders were running a human-trafficking and pedophilia ring — known as ‘Pizzagate’ — was real,” CNN reports.

“Greene, running now to represent in the northwest corner of Georgia in the US House, made the comments in 2017 and 2018, writing for the now-defunct website of American Truth Seekers, a conspiracy-laden blog.”

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