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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene offered a bewildering amendment to a bill to supply military assistance to Israel on the issue of border security on Wednesday, further complicating her duel with Speaker Mike Johnson and drawing criticism that she is unserious.
She suggested that the Israel aid bill should also involve setting up a space laser to help control migration at the US-Mexico border.
It is not the first time she’s referenced such extraterrestrial hardware: before being elected she suggested that California forest fires were being started by a space laser partly owned by a prominent Jewish banking family. She later denied being antisemitic, insisting she had no idea the Rothschild family were Jewish.
When asked about the claims recently by a British journalist she suggested they “f*** off”.
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