Marjorie Taylor Greene says Ukraine is sex trafficking kids & selling their organs

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — who opposes U.S. funding to help Ukraine fight off Russia’s invasion — believes that Ukraine is sex trafficking children and harvesting their organs. It’s just the latest of many extreme conspiracy theories she has peddled.

Standing on the U.S. Capitol steps on Tuesday, Greene live-streamed her 40-minute publicity stunt in which she stood nearby fellow protesters and said, “There is massive human trafficking in Ukraine. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world…it’s a known country for child organ trafficking.”

Whether she realizes it or not, she’s repeating disinformation that Russian state operatives have used to try and divide Ukrainian allies, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

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“The organ harvesting hoax was further amplified by Russian state media and ultimately seeped into English-language websites and platforms,” AP writer David Klepper wrote. “It can now be found on major platforms including Twitter and Telegram, where Russian forces are portrayed as the saviors of trafficking victims.”

Meidas Touch Media (MTM) points out that this is at least the second time she has spread this disinformation. In September, she told anti-LGBTQ+ broadcaster Charlie Kirk, “Ukraine is one of the worst countries on the Earth for child sex trafficking and they’re harvesting children’s organs over there.”

MTM also points out that the Ukrainian child sex trafficking claim has long circulated amongst believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory. The FBI has deemed QAnon believers a domestic terrorist threat. Its believers suspect that a shadowy international child-trafficking ring — run by Satan-worshipping Democrats, Hollywood elites, and lizard-humanoids — sexually abuse and torture kids in order to extract an allegedly psychedelic, youth-rejuvenating chemical called adrenochrome from their victims’ pituitary glands. While human bodies do produce adrenochrome, it does not actually have any psychedelic or youth-rejuvenating effects.

QAnon has been linked to death threats against LGBTQ+ politicians and their allies. QAnon believers have not partnered up with international organizations that actually work to prevent child trafficking. Building off of this hysteria, right-wingers like Greene have claimed that transgender people, LGBTQ+ people, their allies, and gender-affirming doctors want to “sexualize” children and “mutilate” their genitals through surgery, even though such surgeries aren’t conducted on trans children.

In 2021, Greene was removed from all her House committee assignments for pushing conspiracy theories online, including ones that proclaimed that all school shootings are fake, that a plane never hit the Pentagon during the September 11 terrorist attacks, that California wildfires were started by a Jewish-owned space laser, and accusing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of slicing off a child’s face and wearing it.

Greene was recently kicked out of the House’s far-right Freedom Caucus after referring to fellow Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) as a “little b**ch.” She has also previously called Biden a pedophile, described D.C. Pride as “Sodom and Gomorrah,” and called student-athletes “trans terrorists.”