US Congressman fired for calling Parkland footage “fake.”

Miami – US Congressman Ted Deutch described Tuesday as “insensitive” and “dangerous” that his colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene supports conspiracy theories and the shooting that took place three years ago at a high school in Parkland in which 17 people died.

“It is outrageous that such a person has been elected to Congress,” said the Democrat on Tuesday, representing the Florida district where the tragedy took place in February 2018.

Deutch criticized Congressman Taylor Greene for promoting many other conspiracy theories, including that of the QAnon movement “and its racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

The congressman was joined by Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie, one of the deceased students, who urged the congressman to “resign for the good of this country.”

Parkland was not a made-up event. My daughter and 16 other people were killed that day, ”he reminds her in a message on his Twitter account, accompanied by a photo of the young woman.

Republican Taylor Greene wrote on Facebook that the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s school on Valentine’s Day by former student Nikolas Cruz was “false”.

This is a 2018 statement discovered and disclosed by Media Matters, a publication that focuses on analyzing conservative media.

“Radical conspiracy theorists cruelly came to our community in the days after the shooting to shamefully deny that 17 people were killed,” Deutch complained today.

“Our community was devastated by the tragedy and doing anything other than show support to families and survivors is heartless, insulting and incredibly inappropriate for a member of Congress,” he added.

For the Congressman, it is “especially dangerous when such lies come from people in positions of power and influence.”

He recalled that the congressman rose to fame for refusing to wear a mask on Capitol Hill amid the coronavirus pandemic and for “ supporting Trump’s lie that his election had been stolen, which triggered the January 6 attack on the Capitol. ” . .

Rep. Greene, she said, should reject these comments, apologize to anyone she has offended, and, most importantly, tell her followers the truth.

Namely, “the truth that 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in a mass shooting. The truth that QAnon is a dangerous conspiracy theory. And the truth that Joe Biden is taking office tomorrow because he won the election and that President Trump’s lies are undermining our democracy, ”said Deutch.