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House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene told a British journalist to "f*** off" on Tuesday after being questioned over what they called her "love" of conspiracy theories.
Emily Maitlis, who works for UK radio network LBC's 'The News Agents' show, asked: "Can you tell me why so many people that support Donald Trump love conspiracy theories, including yourself? He seems to attract lots of conspiracy theorists."
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Speaking from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Greene replied: "Well let me tell you you're a conspiracy theorist and the left and the media spreads more conspiracy theories. We like the truth, we like supporting our constitution, our freedoms and America First."
Maitlis then asked: "What about Jewish space lasers? Tell us about Jewish space lasers?"
In response Greene said: "Why don't you go talk about Jewish space lasers and really why don't you f*** off."
The footage was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by The News Agents, where it went viral, receiving more than 1.5 million views.
In 2018 Greene suggested wildfires in California could have been caused by "lasers or blue beams of light" from space involving the Rothschilds, a prominent Jewish banking family. The Republican firebrand later said she didn't realize the Rothschilds were Jewish when she made the comment.
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Newsweek contacted the Washington, D.C., office of Marjorie Taylor Greene by telephone and voicemail message at 5:40 a.m. ET on Wednesday. This article will be updated if they wish to comment.
On Tuesday Trump and Joe Biden secured near-clean sweeps of the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries respectively. However, Trump did suffer a surprise defeat in Vermont to Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, while Biden lost in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
Before abruptly ending the interview with Maitlis after being asked about conspiracy theories Greene was questioned on what Haley's response to the results of Super Tuesday should be.
She replied: "Well we've been encouraging her to drop out and support President Trump and I think tonight is the clear message that President Trump is the clear front-runner, he's the winner, in our Republican primary and it's time for Nikki Haley to drop out and support him."
Greene was also asked by Maitlis whether she'd like to be on Trump's list of possible vice-presidential picks. She said: "He's got a long list. I support President Trump in any way, any way he'd ask me. But I can assure you it won't be Nikki Haley."
In February, Greene said British Foreign Secretary David Cameron could "kiss my a**" after he urged the U.S. Congress to provide additional aid to Ukraine, urging them not to "give in to tyrants" as he suggested some had during the 1930s with Adolf Hitler.
Writing in The Hill, Cameron said: "I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s. He came back for more, costing us far more lives to stop his aggression."
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