In her Georgia district, voters saw Ms. Greene as a conservative voice that would be impossible to ignore. Now the revelation of past social media posts has unsettled some who backed her.
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — Billy Martin does not care much for politicians. But the retired teacher and coach liked what he heard from Marjorie Taylor Greene as she promised to take on Washington as a defiant force, intent on rattling the establishment.
Mr. Martin, 62, has lived all of his life in the foothills rolling below the Appalachian Mountains in Georgia, in a community that he believed had long been overlooked. He supported Ms. Greene, he said, because she had a brazen voice that was impossible to ignore.
Yet it has also been impossible to ignore the torrent of troubling social media posts and videos of Ms. Greene’s that have surfaced in recent weeks. In them, she endorsed violent behavior, including executing Democratic leaders. She also spread conspiracy theories, describing a deadly school shooting as a hoax and questioning whether a plane crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. Continue reading.