Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Monday that she was “swatted” while at home in Georgia with her family for Christmas.
Police were sent to her residence on Christmas day after a false crime had been reported to authorities.
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“I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here,” Greene wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday. “My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this. I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!”
The Georgia congresswoman did not specify what crime was called in to police, nor did she say which police department stopped by her home, though she referenced a death threat she recently received in a series of posts on social media.
A spokesperson for Greene did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment on the incident. A spokeswoman for the Rome City Police Department said in a statement that authorities received a call through the local suicide hotline that prompted a response.
“As we were preparing to respond, we reached out to her security detail and it was determined that there wasn’t any emergency,” Kelly Madden, the department’s public information officer, said, adding that, “this is not the first incident.”
Greene said on X that she received a death threat on Thursday, sharing screenshots of messages allegedly sent to her by a user on the platform. It is not clear if this threat was related to Monday’s incident.
She said she “received this death threat where this man is saying I will be shot in the head and skinned to make a ‘parasol’ making a reference to Gein, who was a psychopath killer who would make things out of his victim’s skin.”
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The GOP lawmaker also shared a screenshot of an email she received from the U.S. Capitol Police about the threats, which shows how the suspect in the matter responded to questioning from officers about his comments.
Representatives for the USCP did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment on the matter.
