Conspiracy-pushing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told controversial “Infowars” host Alex Jones that she’s entertained the idea of running for president.
The Georgia rep made her comments after Jones asked if she would serve as vice president to former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, then encouraged her to claim the top of the hypothetical 2024 ticket herself.
“I’m serious, you’re just as smart or smarter than both of them,” Jones said in a clip picked up by The Daily Beast Thursday. “Everybody loves you — we need to think about MTG president, here.”
Greene, 48, confessed, “It’s not something I don’t consider,” but said she would only enter the presidential race if she knew she had a shot at winning.
Jones first posed the idea of a Greene presidency to the potential candidate on his show in February. She went on to win her state’s primary in late May and plans to seek reelection in November.
The freshman lawmaker was stripped of her committee assignments in 2021 following the revelation of a pattern of odd behavior that included her suggesting on social media that space lasers controlled by a prominent Jewish banking family may be to blame for wildfires on Earth. Like Jones, she has also reportedly suggested school shootings are fake news and that the terror attacks of 9/11 might have also been a hoax. Greene claimed on the House floor that she had been “allowed to believe things that weren’t true,” but now knows better.
On Wednesday, video emerged of Greene claiming a pair of July 4 shootings — one of which left seven people dead at a parade in Illinois — may have been “designed” to persuade Republicans to support gun control, which she opposes. In that clip, she noted there were no mass shootings during Pride parades in June as an indicator something is afoul.
“What’s the definition of a right-wing conspiracy theory?” she asked rhetorically. “Well, by the way, it’s the news that’s just six months early.”
During her conversation with Jones this week, Greene and her host ranted about how “they” would come after Greene if she made a run for the White House, but she said that should Trump or DeSantis be looking for a running mate, she would listen.
“Yes, that would be something I definitely would consider,” Greene told “Infowars” viewers.
She also said Trump, who Greene still claims won the 2020 election, is “definitely going to run” in 2024.
Jones was once a big Trump supporter, but has since seemingly soured on the 45th president. Jones and Greene, both COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, split from Trump on that issue.
Trump appeared on “Infowars” during his first run for the presidency and complimented Jones on his “amazing” reputation. Jones was found liable for defamation on 2021 based on his reporting on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012. The Southern Poverty Law Center said the 48-year-old Texan has “created a financial and brand empire out of selling misinformation and disinformation.”
