Greene tells CPAC she 'knew she was in good company' when Twitter banned her

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told a crowd of conservatives that she never had any second thoughts about the tweet that made her the first member of Congress to ever be kicked off. 

Asked if she felt like an ‘extremist’ after she was banned from the social media platform, the Georgia Republican said: ‘The first thing I knew was I was definitely in the right.’

‘Because Twitter kicked off President Trump, right everybody? So I knew I was in good company when Twitter kicked me off.’ 

‘I also knew I had not tweeted anything wrong … I was talking about masking children is child abuse , and I had been talking about why in knew we had to do everything we can to stop vaccine mandates stop people from being canceled, stop especially for our healthcare workers who took care of people on the front line,’ the firebrand conservative said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando on Saturday. 

Trump himself will headline the conference at 7 p.m. Saturday. 

Asked if she felt like an ‘extremist’ after she was banned from the social media platform, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said: ‘The first thing I knew was I was definitely in the right.’

‘Because Twitter kicked off President Trump, right everybody? So I knew I was in good company when Twitter kicked me off,’ Greene said 

One day earlier Greene had spoke at America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, organized by white nationalist icon Nick Fuentes. 

Fuentes was involved in the deadly 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally and has been subpoenaed for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. 

In that address she claimed that Democrats had destroyed ‘gender’ and ‘pronouns’ by adopting trans-inclusive language and told the crowd they must ‘fight for the Constitution.’  

‘You’ve been handed the responsibility to fight for our Constitution and stand for our freedoms, and stop the Democrats who are the communist party of the United States of America,’ Greene said. 

After Greene’s remarks, speaker Vincent James Foxx told the crowd, ‘They want to replace you.’ 

‘Western white culture is the majority culture, to which even non-whites assimilate into today — and they’re better off for it.’ 

Foxx works with the alt-right street fighting club Rise Above Movement.  

As Greene exited the conference, she was chased by reporters asking her why she spoke at the conference yesterday and if she would condemn white supremacy. She refused to respond and was ushered away by security. 

While Greene’s personal account remains permanently banned, her work account, @RepMTG, was reinstated.  

Greene’s final tweets on her personal account show her railing at what she blasted as government overreach about COVID and discussing how life had changed since the virus hit US shores.

Greene’s suspension comes almost a year after Donald Trump was permanently suspended days after the January 6 riot. 

It was the fifth strike for Greene on Twitter who was last suspended in August for saying that vaccines were ‘failing’ to reduce the spread of COVID and that the FDA shouldn’t have approved them. 

She got her third strike in July after tweeting that COVID wasn’t dangerous. She was also suspended in January, days after the Capitol riot, for tweets echoing conspiracy theories about voter fraud in her home state of Georgia.

Two or three strikes earn a 12-hour account lock; four strikes prompt a weeklong suspension, and five or more strikes can get someone permanently removed from Twitter. 

‘The FDA should not approve the covid vaccines. There are too many reports of infection & spread of #COVID19 in vaccinated people. These vaccines are failing & do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks. Vaccine mandates & passports violate individual freedoms,’ Greene wrote on Twitter on Aug. 9. 

In a statement released by her office, Greene said she was suspended for sharing a tweet citing numbers from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a self-reporting tool for vaccine side effects managed by the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration.

A Twitter spokesperson said: ‘We permanently suspended @mtrgreene for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy.’