Fact Check: Marjorie Taylor Greene Did NOT Say 'Democrats Would Have A Supermajority' If Others In Congress Resigned For Things Matt Gaetz Is Alleged To Have Done

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Fact Check: Marjorie Taylor Greene Did NOT Say 'Democrats Would Have A Supermajority' If Others In Congress Resigned For Things Matt Gaetz Is Alleged To Have Done Fake Quote

Did Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly say that if members of Congress resigned over the same allegations leveled against former Rep. Matt Gaetz, "Democrats would have a supermajority"? No, that's not true: A satirical social media account made up that supposed quote. No credible news outlets have reported that Greene made that statement.

The claim originated in a post (archived here) on X on November 21, 2024. The most recent version of the post read:

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says if every member of Congress had to resign for doing what Matt Gaetz has been accused of, 'Democrats would have a supermajority.'

This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:

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(Source: X screenshot taken on Sat Nov 23 16:13:10 2024 UTC)

Gaetz, who resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives, then withdrew from consideration as the pick for U.S. attorney general, was under investigation by the Department of Justice and the House Ethics Committee, most notably for potential sexual misconduct.

The X account that posted the alleged Greene quote, The Halfway Post, is a self-described satirical account. The bio of the account reads:

DADA NEWS. Halfway true comedy and satire by @DashMacIntyre. I don't report the facts, I improve them. Subscribe: https://substack.com/@thehalfwaycafe

Lead Stories searched for the claim using keywords on Google News (archived here), which found no credible documents or reporting to confirm the claim. We also looked at Greene's two X accounts (here, archived here; and here, archived here), along with her Facebook accounts (here, archived here; and here, archived here), which showed no indication of her publishing such a statement.

Other Lead Stories fact checks of claims related to The Halfway Post can be found here. Other Lead Stories fact checks of claims related to Marjorie Taylor Greene can be found here.

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