Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams People Blaming Her for Paul Pelosi Attack

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has slammed those blaming her for the attack on House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

An intruder broke into the Pelosi’s couple’s San Francisco home early Friday and repeatedly struck Paul Pelosi, an 82-year-old businessman. He had surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands and his doctors expect a full recovery, Pelosi’s spokesman said.

The suspect “demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul,” Pelosi said on Saturday. He was reportedly yelling “Where is Nancy?”

The attack prompted Greene’s past comments about Nancy Pelosi to resurface, where she said the speaker was guilty of treason and that “it’s a crime punishable by death.”

The Georgia congresswoman has now hit back at those blaming her for the attack on Paul Pelosi.

“Since the shadow bans seem to be lifted on my Twitter account, retweeting for those ridiculously blaming me for what happened to Paul Pelosi,” she wrote on Twitter on Saturday, alongside a video she shared in December about death threats to members of Congress.

In that video, Greene said it is “completely wrong for any member of Congress to receive death threats.” She alleged that the media had “defamed” and “smeared” her, leading to death threats.

In Saturday’s tweet, she added: “Death threats like these are consistent because of Twitter’s blue check mark insane left’s crazy conspiracy theories & lies about me.”

Newsweek has contacted Greene’s office for comment.

The Republican had previously sparked backlash on social media after she responded to the news of the attack on Paul Pelosi by saying that “violence and crime are rampant in Joe Biden’s America.”

“It shouldn’t happen to innocent Americans. It shouldn’t happen to me,” she said, adding that she had been swatted multiple times and receives death threats on a daily basis.

Rep. Jim McGovern were among those who criticized Greene over the comments.

“YOU called for Nancy Pelosi to be executed. YOU said she should be hung for treason,” McGovern tweeted. “And now that someone listened, you’re making Paul Pelosi’s attack about YOU. This is what Republicans stand for, America. It’s sick.”

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden on Saturday linked those embracing baseless claims that 2020 election was stolen to violence like the assault on Paul Pelosi.

“The generic point I want to make is that it’s one thing to condemn the violence, but you can’t condemn the violence unless you condemn those people who continue to argue the election was not real, that it’s being stolen,” he said.

“All the malarkey that’s being put out there to undermine democracy. You can’t just apologize and say: the violence. It affects people’s mentality. It affects how people think, particularly, people who are not maybe as stable as other people.”

He added: “The talk has to stop. That’s the problem. That’s the problem. You can’t just say, feel badly about the violence, we condemn it. Condemn what produces the violence and this talk produces the violence.”

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a former US President Donald Trump’s Save America rally at Macomb County Community College Sports and Expo Center in Warren, Michigan, on October 1, 2022. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images