Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't the only Republican who's under the false impression that Joe Biden was president in 2020. She has quite a bit of GOP company. (via MaddowBlog)
— the claims are inherently self-defeating — but an amazing number of GOP officials have spent the last couple of years pushing the line.
This came up again yesterday during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, when Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greenethe Biden administration successfully seizing fentanyl before it reaches American soil as evidence of the Biden administration failing to stop fentanyl before it reaches American soil.
That was, to be sure, quite weird, but it wasn’t the Georgia congresswoman’s only misstep. Greene also published“Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations [sic] refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s [sic] from murdering Americans everyday [sic] by Chinese fentanyl.”
The tweet came with a video of Rebecca Kiessling, a Michigan woman who told lawmakers about losing two sons to accidental fentanyl overdoses. But while Greene saw Kiessling’s tragic story as proof of the Biden administration’s policies, there was a fairly obvious problem with this attempt at blame: Kiessling’s sons diedAnd while I don’t imagine anyone was especially surprised to see that the right-wing Georgian hadn't done her homework, it was part of a curious recent pattern in GOP politics:
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