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Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Officially Gone Completely Off the Rails

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-has-officially-gone-completely-off-the-rails-n4951970

Ever since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024, the far left has been pushing conspiracy theories that the whole thing was staged. It was their coping mechanism because they were angry that Trump survived, and because they felt Trump would benefit politically from the incident.

Now, the liberal media is trying to turn it into a MAGA conspiracy theory, and they’re getting help from none other than Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Yes, really.

Greene recently took to X to post a question about what “really happened” in Butler. "Corey Comperatore's family deserves to know the truth about Matthew Crooks and what happened in Butler on July 13, 2024," she wrote. "President Trump, of all people, should be leading the charge. Why isn't he? That's the question."

The facts about what happened that day are quite straightforward. A gunman opened fire at a Trump campaign rally in Butler. Corey Comperatore was killed shielding his family from the bullets. The Secret Service neutralized the shooter. Trump survived.

The facts aren't complicated, yet in the immediate hours and days after the shooting, it was left-wing commentators and Democrats who floated the idea that the whole incident was staged to boost Trump's campaign. That's where this nonsense was born. The fact that a handful of former Trump supporters have since picked it up doesn't make it a MAGA phenomenon — it makes it a useful recycling project for people who've decided that burning their bridges with Trump is now their entire political identity.

I don't think MTG has been within sight of the "rails" for a year or three. Progs and truth have been estranged strangers wrt Trump for 11 years and counting, but this "Even MAGAs" claim is at the intersection of Fallacy-of-Composition St. and Straw Man Blvd.

More broadly, I think (possibly wrongly, of course) there is a pattern in the "questions" about the Trump assassination attempt and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Federal courts have placed significant limits around pre-trial publicity and evidence chain-of-custody. Prosecutors, local through Federal, are being extremely careful and muted about what they make public. CTists are transmogrifying that court-imposed silence and not publicizing every bit a evidence into a CT, like  MTG, like Candace Owens.

My dad was a mechanic, but that doesn't mean I underdstand how to rebuild an engine.

My dad would have considered himself a failure as a dad if he hadn't imparted that knowledge to me. I don't use it much, but the knowledge stands as a basis for everything I've learned to do since.

An (Asian) Indian woman was living in a "colonia"?

... Batra said the people who arrested her did not have visible badges nor were they wearing uniforms.

Ocelot II doesn't know that law enforcement, from city police through Federal, regularly have officers working in "plain clothes"?

The (probable) activist-org-sourced posted by Ocelot II has the rickety loosey-goosey feel of having had significant narrative-contradicting information edited out.

[quoteSo I'm wondering if handsome.. democrat politicians are going to begin suffering the fate of good looking blond women..][/quote]

Fixed it!

Swallwell is handsome? For Washington D.C. standards, perhaps, but that's an awfully low bar.