‘Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm,’ the former Georgia congresswoman wrote

Marjorie Taylor Greene has urged fellow MAGA supporters – and other Americans – to “take off their political blinders” over the death of protester Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, warning that they are being “incited into civil war.”

“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement,” Greene wrote on X Sunday, the day after the fatal shooting. “However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment.

“Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”

Despite video showing that 37-year-old Pretti was filming federal officers but did not have a weapon drawn, the Trump administration has claimed he had tried to assassinate agents in an act of “domestic terrorism.”

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      5 hours ago

      This. No one needs to look any further. We are not being lead, we are being fleeced.

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      If there weren’t, MTG wouldn’t be doing it. There is less money in it than their current strategy.

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        Not necessarily, she’s young by politician standards and she understands the old geezer leader her party is going to die leaving a charisma void and eventually a clusterfuck party-imploding. Building popularity right now is her correctly reading the writing on the wall and making investments in this eventuality.