‘I Never Said That!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Denies ‘Jewish Space Lasers’ Conspiracy in Testy Exchange With Cenk Uygur

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blamed a 2021 “hit piece” for kickstarting the “lie” that she explicitly said “Jewish space lasers” were behind devastating California fires in a 2018 Facebook post.

In the now-deleted post, Greene speculated on internet reports of “lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires,” as well as the possibility that the 150,000-acre Camp Fire in California – which killed 85 people – may have been caused by “space solar generators” launched by businesses funded by the Rothschild investment group to clear space for a Democratic high speed rail project in the state.

At the time and since, the post has been mocked and widely criticized as anti-Semitic for its inclusion of the Rothschilds trope. As the story spread it became paraphrased as the “Jewish space lasers” conspiracy theory.

Since then, Greene has been forced to deny the reports several times in exchanges with journalists, including as recently as Wednesday, when the congresswoman was quick to put down the claim she’d ever used those particular words in a testy exchange with The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur.

After the host raised “space lasers”, Greene replied: “I never said Jewish space lasers. That’s a lie. Yeah, it’s a lie and I really am tired of people perpetuating the lie.”

“So what do you mean you didn’t say it? I’m trying to clear it up,” Ugyur pressed.

Greene replied: “I’ve never said that. I never said that statement in my life but there was someone that wrote an article and that was the headline and that’s what they created. It was early January of 2021 when I first came into Congress. So it was an entire hit piece against me and it was a statement I had never said in my life. Until I saw it trending on Twitter attached to my name.”

“So that was not your Facebook account?” the host asked.

Greene continued: “Of course that was my Facebook account but I never said ‘Jewish space lasers’ and I never blamed Jewish people or Israel for anything in my Facebook post. And you can read my Facebook post and it’s clear and obvious.”

The defense is one that Greene has made before, accusing a “leftist journalist” of manufacturing the term to attack her.

While she has never named the journalist or the publication responsible, the apparent earliest article headlined with the phrase in question, as described by Greene, is one by Intelligencer columnist Jonathan Chait, who ran an article on January 28, 2021, titled “Marjorie Taylor Greene Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser.”

Moving on in the interview, Uygur wasn’t finished and used the “space laser” line to segue to what he said was the “adjacent topic” of President Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system.

“Are you worried about Elon’s space lasers these days?” he jibed, a line that Greene laughed out loud at.

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