Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told Fox News host Jesse Watters Tuesday evening after being “swatted” for the eighth time that each of the incidents has been “terrifying,”, especially since police near her home in Rome, Georgia, have at times, shown up with guns drawn.
Swatting is when someone calls 911 to make a false report to the police, usually of a very serious crime like a murder, in order to get officers to respond with potentially deadly force.
“You can see this video in my home where I had to go to the door in the middle of the night, where the SWAT team had showed up, they had gun[s] in hand,” she said Tuesday night.
“They had been told that I had murdered someone and that I was ready to commit suicide and that I was willing to shoot police officers when they came into my house,” Greene explained.
Fox added:
Swatting, which is illegal, is used to target specific individuals or locations. A caller reports a false incident, such as a home killing or bomb threat, to emergency dispatchers with the goal of getting armed officers on high alert to respond. It’s also a practice that’s grown more frequent as information, such as people’s private home addresses, becomes easier to obtain on social media.
“It’s extremely serious,” she said. “It’s so serious that not only has it happened to me eight times, it’s also happened to my family members. Both of my daughters were swatted over Christmas, along with dozens of other congressmen [and] women, senators, and state government officials.”
MTG added that she expects the FBI and the Justice Department to track down and eventually prosecute the guilty parties. She also worries that she is the target of a larger coordinated attack.
“I’ve started to ask: is this an attack on our government, as well as an attack on the police?” she added. “And is the Biden administration capable of handling what is happening with attempted assassinations on government officials because we know the Biden administration is not capable of stopping the invasion at the southern border, which has surely brought terrorists into our country.”
WATCH:
MTG talks about how "terrifying" it is to be 'swatted' after scumbag left-wing losers call in false reports at her home. pic.twitter.com/BgIGcLKF2f
— USA Features Media (@UsaFeatures) January 3, 2024
