While there were multiple highlights when it comes to GOP rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday, none was more bizarre than the Republican lawmaker getting fact-checked by interviewer Leslie Stahl when it comes to the former’s comment about the Parkland shooting.
The clip of the fact-checking was originally posted on Twitter by journalist Brian Krassenstein. Krassenstein wrote: “When liars are caught in a lie they usually panic and say weird crap. Case-in-point: Watching [Lesley] Stahl fact-check Marjorie Taylor Greene on 60 Minutes this evening about calling the Parkland shooting a ‘false flag’ was the worse deflection I have ever seen in my life.”
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When liars are caught in a lie they usually panic and say weird crap. Case-in-point:
Watching Leslie Stahl fact-check Marjorie Taylor Greene on 60 Minutes this evening about calling the Parkland shooting a "false flag" was the worse deflection I have ever seen in my life:… pic.twitter.com/VVVxzkqxqr
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 3, 2023
During the interview, Stahl asked Greene to elaborate on her stance on the Parkland school shooting, as she has previously called the shooter a “false flag.” In the shooting, that took place on February 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, murdering 17 people and injuring 17 others.
Greene responded: “Do you actually have my position? No, I never said that. School shootings are horrible and I don’t think it is anything to joke about.” As she was defending herself on the chair, the interview cut to Green’s Facebook activity where she was seen agreeing to the “false flag” comment about the shooting made by a Facebook user.
The comment said: “It’s called a pay off to keep his mouth shut since it was a false flag planned shooting.” Greene replied “Exactly.”
Stahl cut through Greene’s attempt to defend herself and said: “We fact-checked before I got to this interview.”
To this, an infuriated Greene snapped back: “Have you fact-checked all of my statements from kindergarten through to 12th grade and in college? And as I have paid my taxes and never broken a law, I got a few speeding tickets. Do we need to talk about those too? Because I think where you are going down is the same attacks that people have attacked me with over and over and over.”
