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MAGA Trump disciple MTG is fueling another crazy conspiracy theory

As the death toll rises from the massacre and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is spreading another conspiracy theory.

“Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for someone to lie and say it’s not possible.” Greene posted on X to her 1.2 million followers.

Greene didn’t describe who “they” are in her post, but she has a record of using conspiracy theories to explain deadly disasters.

In 2018, a poorly maintained power grid sparked a wildfire in California that killed 84 people. In a Facebook post in November of that year, Greene incorrectly speculated that darker forces were at work.

Greene connected a series of disparate dots, suggesting a bank controlled by the Jewish Rothschild family, a utility company responsible for the fire, and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a compelling motive for starting the fire: clearing the way for a high-speed rail project that Brown wanted. She also raised the possibility that the fires could have been started by “lasers or blue light beams” fired from space by Brown’s allies who are said to be in the solar energy industry.

The post coined the term “Jewish space lasers.”

More recently, in April, after a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck New Jersey and shook the Northeast around the same time as a solar eclipse, she said they were signs: “God is sending signs to America to call us to repentance.”

Helene is the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005. About half of the casualties occurred in North Carolina, while dozens more were killed in South Carolina and Georgia.

It is unclear how many people are missing or missing. The death toll rose to 215 people on Thursday as more victims were found.

Power is slowly being restored as the number of homes and businesses without power fell below 1 million for the first time since last weekend, according to poweroutage.us. Most of the outages are in the Carolinas and Georgia, where Helene struck after making landfall in Florida on September 26 as a Category 4 hurricane.

Starting Thursday, the search for people no one has ever heard of continued in places where telephone and power lines were out. Calls for help came from people running out of medication or needing fuel for their generators.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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