QAnon-backing Republican renounces conspiracies ahead of reprimand vote
A US lawmaker who backed QAnon before entering Congress renounced the conspiracy movement on Thursday (Feb 4) and expressed regret for spreading misinformation, hours before the House was to reprimand her over extremist statements.
"These were words of the past, and these things ... do not represent my values," Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told the House of Representatives in a speech.
"I was allowed to believe things that weren't true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them," she added. "And that is absolutely what I regret."
Greene added that she "walked away" from QAnon before she ran for Congress, and acknowledged that "school shootings are absolutely real" and that "9/11 absolutely happened" - US tragedies that she has cast doubt on in the past.
But while she described herself as "a sinner" before God, she also did not directly apologise in her 10-minute speech.
The posture of contrition came as she faced a disciplinary vote in the Democratic-led House after the chamber's top Republican Kevin McCarthy baulked at punishing her over her rhetoric.
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