Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘swatted’ on Christmas Day
Political harassment takes no days off.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Monday that she was “swatted” on Christmas Day, being victimized by a fake police report for the eighth time.
“I was just swatted,” the Georgia Republican wrote on X on Monday. “This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here.”
The Rome Police Department confirmed to The Associated Press later Monday that it had received the call but said it quickly determined that it was a hoax and no officers arrived at Ms. Greene‘s home.
Department spokesperson Kelly Madden said a man in New York called a suicide hotline in Georgia late in the morning claiming to have shot someone at the Greene home and threatening suicide.
The call was transferred to police who, suspicious of the call because of its origins and giving Ms. Greene’s address, verified with the congresswoman’s security that she was safe and nothing was awry at the home.
“We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond,” she said.
Being “swatted” means that someone falsely reported an ongoing crime at your house, causing the police to show up. It isn’t a common outcome, but such incidents have resulted in gunfights or fatalities if the police or swatting victim do something “wrong.”
“My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this,” Ms. Greene wrote. “I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!”
Ms. Greene, a resident of Rome, Georgia, has previously accused left-wing activists of staging the repeated crime calls to her house.
She has recounted her previous times being swatted on the Right Side Broadcasting Network.
Last August, someone reported to the police that a male had been shot five times in a bathtub, with a female inside the home and possibly other children.
“This is what gets people killed. There have been multiple incidences just like this one where police ended up shooting someone because they believed they were responding to a call. And that’s what was happening to me,” Ms. Greene told the network.
The Washington Times has reached out to Ms. Greene’s office for comment.
