Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia falsely claimed Tuesday that the Biden administration is responsible for the fentanyl deaths of two young men who actually died during the Trump administration – and her congressional spokesperson profanely dismissed questions about the false claim as irrelevant.
Michigan mother and conservative activist Rebecca Kiessling testified to the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday about how her sons Caleb, 20, and Kyler, 18, had died on July 29, 2020, as a result of fentanyl poisoning from taking pills Kiessling said they had mistakenly believed were safer pain pills.
Kiessling made an emotional plea for stronger federal action to prevent the importation of fentanyl over the southern border, claiming, “You’re welcoming drug dealers across our border!” (Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, is largely smuggled in by US citizens through legal ports of entry rather than by migrants sneaking past unprotected stretches of the border.) Then, later in the day, Greene tweeted a video of an exchange she had with Kiessling at the hearing.
But Greene wrongly suggested in the tweet that Kiessling had blamed the Biden administration for the death of her sons. In fact, Kiessling had explicitly told the committee the date of the tragedy, making clear that it happened with more than five months left in the presidency of Donald Trump.
“Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl,” Greene tweeted.
Greene, who supported the Trump presidency and has endorsed his 2024 run, has more than 2 million followers on Twitter. CNN reached out to the spokesperson for her congressional office, Nick Dyer, on…
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