White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that she doesn\u2019t plan to speak about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the far-right congresswoman known for supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory, during her press briefings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Psaki was responding to a reporter\u2019s question about whether the White House had any comment on Tuesday\u2019s\u00a0disturbing revelations\u00a0about Greene\u2019s Facebook page. In 2018 and 2019, before she was elected to Congress, Greene had reportedly made hundreds of posts and comments indicating support for executing prominent Democratic politicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to speak further about her, I think, in this briefing room.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first-term lawmaker is also being criticized for a 2018 video that surfaced Wednesday showing her harassing Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor David Hogg outside the U.S. Capitol building, yelling questions about \u201cgun laws that attack our Second Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Facebook posts unearthed this week, Greene promoted a conspiracy theory about the Parkland shooting, which killed 17 people and injured 17 others. Her posts indicated that she believed the massacre was not real, but rather a \u201cfalse flag\u201d event designed to push for stricter gun laws.<\/p>\n
Psaki\u2019s refusal to comment on Greene offers a stark contrast from her predecessor, Kayleigh McEnany, who defended\u00a0then-President Donald Trump\u2019s support for Greene and another far-right 2020 congressional candidate, the conspiracy theorist and Islamophobe Laura Loomer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hasn\u2019t done a deep dive into the statements by these two particular women,\u201d McEnany said of Trump in August.<\/p>\n