Marjorie Taylor Greene quote about Matt Gaetz, Congress members originated on satire account

Did Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., really insult her Republican colleagues with a comment about former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.?

Gaetz resigned from Congress on Nov. 13 when President-elect Donald Trump tapped him to be his attorney general, but Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration Nov. 21 when his nomination appeared unlikely amid sexual misconduct allegations. His resignation from Congress came before a House Ethics Committee voted on whether to release a report on its investigation of those allegations. The committee on Nov. 20 voted not to release the report, but is scheduled to vote again Dec. 5.

A Nov. 21 Threads post said, "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.’"

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Greene, in X posts, supported Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney general. Two days before Gaetz exited the nomination process, Greene challenged her Republican colleagues, some of whom wanted to release the House ethics report. She said some of them had their own secretly settled sexual misconduct claims.

"If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see," Greene wrote Nov. 19 on X. 

But there’s no evidence that Greene made the quote attributed to her about Republicans in the Threads post. We found no credible news reports on Google or the Nexis news database that show she did.

A search of the post’s exact words, on Google and X, led us to a Nov. 21 X post by The Halfway Post, a satirical account.

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The Halfway Post’s X profile page describes the account as "Halfway true comedy and satire by @DashMacIntyre." MacIntyre’s X profile page says he’s a comedian who publishes satirical news on The Halfway Post account.

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In a follow-up satirical X post Nov. 24, The Halfway Post said, "BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she doesn’t remember saying she had evidence of other Republicans committing similar sex crimes to Matt Gaetz and would release it if Gaetz wasn’t confirmed."

We rate the claim in the Threads post False.