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Fact check: Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely claims Biden administration is responsible for Michigan brothers’ fentanyl deaths during Trump administration

March 1, 2023
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Fact check: Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely claims Biden administration is responsible for Michigan brothers’ fentanyl deaths during Trump administration
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Republican Politician Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wrongly declared Tuesday that the Biden administration is accountable for the fentanyl deaths of 2 boys who really passed away throughout the Trump administration– and her congressional representative profanely dismissed concerns about the incorrect claim as unimportant.

Michigan mom and conservative activist Rebecca Kiessling affirmed to your home Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday about how her kids Caleb, 20, and Kyler, 18, had actually passed away on July 29, 2020, as an outcome of fentanyl poisoning from taking tablets Kiessling stated they had actually incorrectly thought were much safer pain killer.

Kiessling made a psychological plea for more powerful federal action to avoid the importation of fentanyl over the southern border, declaring, “You’re inviting drug dealerships throughout our border!” (Fentanyl, an effective artificial opioid, is largely smuggled in by United States people through legal ports of entry instead of by migrants slipping previous vulnerable stretches of the border.) Then, later on in the day, Greene tweeted a video of an exchange she had with Kiessling at the hearing.

However Greene mistakenly recommended in the tweet that Kiessling had actually blamed the Biden administration for the death of her kids. In truth, Kiessling had actually clearly informed the committee the date of the disaster, explaining that it occurred with more than 5 months left in the presidency of Donald Trump.

” Listen to this mom, who lost 2 kids to fentanyl poisoning, inform the reality about both of her boy’s murders since of the Biden administrations rejection to protect our border and stop the Cartel’s from killing Americans daily by Chinese fentanyl,” Greenetweeted

Greene, who supported the Trump presidency and has actually backed his 2024 run, has more than 2 million fans on Twitter. CNN connected to the representative for her congressional workplace, Nick Dyer, on Tuesday night to request talk about the incorrect claim and to ask whether Greene had any strategies to erase or fix the tweet.

Dyer reacted in an e-mail by asking whether CNN believes the numerous Americans who have actually passed away from drugs under Biden “appreciate the information” of this specific case. He included, “Do you believe they offer a f ** k about your bullsh * t truth monitoring?”.

Unassociated to CNN’s query, a truth inspect notification was attached to the bottom of Greene’s tweet later on Tuesday night through Twitter’s “neighborhood notes” crowdsourcing function. The tweet had actually been seen more than 3 million times prior to midday on Wednesday.

Inquired about the tweet, Kiessling, an anti-abortion supporter who has actually been active in the Republican politician Celebration grassroots, kept in mind in an e-mail on Wednesday early morning that the variety of fentanyl deaths increased greatly in between 2020 and 2021. She argued that “if the border had actually been protected throughout the Obama administration when the federal government initially understood of this problem, my kids would live today.” Kiessling concluded: “The entire of our federal government has actually stopped working, Congress consisted of.”.

United States deaths from fentanyl and other artificial opioids very first surged under Obama in the mid-2010s, then continued to increase under Trump and sped up once again throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, consisting of early in Biden’s presidency. There have actually just recently been initial indications of enhancement in United States overdose-death numbers, though they stay much greater than they remained in 2020 and earlier.

Greene’s incorrect tweet about the Biden administration was not her only deceitful claim that day.

At a Tuesday conference of congressional Republican politicians’ caucus on “election stability,” Greene castigated a Georgia Republican politician election authorities, Gabriel Sterling, who has actually consistently guaranteed the stability of the 2020 election in the state. Greene’s remarks, which she likewise posted on Twitter, included a range of lies that were long back exposed by Sterling and numerous others.

Greene wrongly declared that “Trump won Georgia,” though he lost by 11,779 votes, reasonable and square, in a state with a Republican guv, Republican politician elections chief and Republican-controlled legislature. She wrongly declared that there were “countless dead citizens in Georgia,” though Georgia elections authorities have actually discovered just 4 such cases in the 2020 election to date and Trump allies’ claims about different other apparently departed citizens have actually been disproven by CNN and others. And she wrongly declared that a video revealed employees in Atlanta’s Fulton County doing something wicked while counting tallies, though the employees were just doing their tasks and though incorrect claims about the video have actually been exposed not just by Sterling however by Trump’s deputy attorney general of the United States and a Trump-appointed previous United States lawyer in Georgia, to name a few.

Greene has actually been constantly incorrect about the 2020 election. Dyer, Greene’s representative, reacted with a profane termination when requested for remark Tuesday night about Greene’s most current incorrect election claims.



Source: CNN.

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