Conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said Saturday night that those who "swatted" her last week wanted her killed by police.
"Absolutely, 100%, they wanted me to be murdered, death by cop. That's what swatting is. And they were doing this in hopes that the police would kill me," Greene said in an extensive interview about the event on Right Side Broadcasting Network.
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On Wednesday and Thursday, police went to Greene's Rome, Georgia, home after false 911 calls were made suggesting that people inside were dead and the killer armed and suicidal. The callers were apparently incensed over the Republican lawmaker's efforts to stop sex-modifying surgery on transgender minors.
On early Wednesday morning, according to police and Greene, a 911 call came in that somebody had murdered people in her home and that a suicidal woman with a gun was walking around the house.
When police arrived at her rural home, Greene said she grabbed an AR-15 by her bed stand after hearing the doorbell and seeing flashlights outside.
But she said something in her mind told her to leave the gun behind. She believes if she had opened the door armed with it that she would have been shot.
“It was truly a God thing that I had that feeling not to carry that gun with me to the front door, because had I have done that, we would have been in a whole different scenario, because I probably would have been the target, and that is the whole purpose of swatting someone,” she said.
After police left, a second call came in to the Rome police admitting to the swatting event and saying it was because Greene opposes gender reassignment operations on minors. She has offered legislation banning the procedures on youths 18 or younger.
A second swatting attempt occurred early Thursday after somebody claiming to be from a suicide hotline called police and said more violence was occurring at the Greene home in response to the lawmaker’s political views.
"Someone wanted to kill, have me killed, wanted to have the police murder me because I'm trying to protect kids." @RepMTG
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When Greene opened the door that night, an officer said, “They did it again,” she recalled.
In the interview, the 911 calls were aired and video footage from Greene’s home was shown, including footage of officers entering her home with pistols drawn.
Greene has been a magnet for attacks since her arrival in Washington. The strong supporter of former President Donald Trump has been assailed for her positions and sometimes fiery and controversial comments. Democrats kicked her off committees, and liberals have been trying to boot her from the ballot.
But she said in the interview that the latest round of attacks has given her strength to fight back harder, certainly a warning to Democrats who may feel her political pain if Republicans take back Congress and she wins a seat on oversight committees.
“I think what everyone needs to understand about me is all of these things that are coming against me and the hate on the Left, on it actually makes me dig in harder. And it's a conviction inside of me. And I will fight harder, and I will keep going. It actually fuels me. So they can try whatever they want. I won't stop,” she said.
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