McConnell blasts ‘loony lies’ by fellow Republican Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene wears a “Trump Won” face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office on opening day of Congress last month (Erin Scott/Pool/AP)

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced fellow GOP member and newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgian’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party”.

“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr’s airplane is not living in reality,” said Mr McConnell.