Video surfaces showing QAnon-promoting congresswoman harassing Stoneman Douglas student after massacre
Video surfaced Wednesday showing U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican QAnon promoter, following David Hogg near the U.S. Capitol, harassing him and trying to goad him into responding.
The exact timing of the video isn’t clear.
Hogg became an anti-gun violence activist after the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre that killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at his school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Greene was elected in November to a Georgia congressional seat. She’s promoted the QAnon conspiracy and people combing through her social media history have found bizarre utterances from her past, including her assertion that the Stoneman Douglas massacre was a “false flag” operation.
The video of Greene going after Hogg was highlighted Wednesday on Twitter by Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was one of the 17 people killed at the school. Guttenberg has also become a prominent activist against gun violence in the aftermath of his daughter’s murder.
The video appears to show both of them in Washington, were they’d been separately making their cases on gun-related issues. She complained that he was able to secure appointments with U.S. senators, but she wasn’t able to get in to see any.
Greene trails Hogg, making comments and asking him questions as he walks down a sidewalk, demanding to know how he managed to see elected officials. “How’d you do that? How did you get major press coverage on this issue and how did you get kids? Why do you use kids why kids?”
Hogg ignored Greene’s taunts, prompting her to claim he can’t defend his views because he won’t engage her while she’s chasing him. She also labeled him a “coward” for not responding to her bait.
On Wednesday, he tweeted about the video. “It’s so frustrating that we have people like @mtgreenee in Congress that would rather spread conspiracies about mass shootings than confront the reality people are dying everyday from gun violence. I just want to do the work and help end gun violence,” Hogg wrote, adding, “You think we want to be doing this? @mtgreenee No- I’d much rather be able to be a college student but I & others can’t & you know why? Bc corrupt politicians like you have made it so it’s on the survivors of Gun violence to end gun violence bc you can’t do your damn job.”
Guttenberg also addressed Greene on Twitter, asking, “is this you harassing @davidhogg111 weeks after the Parkland shooting, that my daughter was killed in & he was in? Calling him a coward for ignoring your insanity. I will answer all of your questions in person. Get ready to record again.”
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Anthony Man can be reached at aman@sunsentinel.com or on Twitter @browardpolitics
