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'Threw me under the bus': Marjorie Taylor Greene turns on Lauren Boebert

Alec Regimbal

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a series of tweets Monday attacking fellow conservative lawmaker Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado. 

Greene normally takes to social media to attack more mainstream Republicans like Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney or Democratic politicians, such as earlier this month when she called California state Sen. Scott Wiener a "communist groomer" after Wiener condemned the term as anti-LGBTQ hate speech. An attack on Boebert — whose ideological views, like Greene's, often border on the fringe — represents a rare shift in Greene's use of the pulpit. 

"I’ve supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. President Trump has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. Kevin McCarthy has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. She just barely came through by 500 votes," Greene said Monday, referring to Boebert's narrow victory over her Democratic challenger in last month's midterm elections. "She gladly takes our [money] but when she’s been asked: Lauren refuses to endorse President Trump, she refuses to support Kevin McCarthy, and she childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite."

Greene posted the tweets after Boebert appeared alongside Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz in an interview for "The Charlie Kirk Show."

The two House Republicans were being asked about their decision not to support California Rep. Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House, an issue Greene has fought vehemently for in recent weeks. Several members of the House Republican Conference have said they're uncomfortable with supporting McCarthy for the speakership, which could put his chances to secure the position in jeopardy given the slim majority the GOP has in the chamber. Greene, on the other hand, has urged her colleagues to stand behind McCarthy as a way to ensure Democrats don't join with the Republican defectors to elect a speaker they view as more palatable.  

When asked about Greene's position on McCarthy, Boebert made reference to a bizarre and antisemitic conspiracy theory Greene championed before she became a member of Congress. 

"I've been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in," Boebert said. "I don't believe in this just like I don't believe in ... Jewish space lasers." 

As the Camp Fire raged throughout Northern California in late 2018, Greene — then a vice president of a Georgia construction company — took to Facebook to hypothesize that former California Gov. Jerry Brown started the blaze with space lasers. Greene noted that "there are all these people who have said what looked like lasers or beams of blue light causing the fires," and then claimed that "space solar generators" — devices concocted by those hoping to "replace coal and oil" — have the power to "collect the suns energy and then beam it back to Earth."

"The country is facing extremely difficult times," Greene said in her final tweet about Boebert on Monday. "Americans expect conservative fighters like us to work together to Save America and that is the only mission I’m 100% devoted to, not high school drama and media sound bites."