The far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to say she thinks she is being spied on through her television, possibly by the US government, and that someone may soon try to kill her.
In a tweet on Sunday, the Republican from Georgia said: “Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV.”
Greene also linked to a CBS News story entitled “Your smart TV might be spying on you, FBI warns”, a piece that linked to a 2019 warning about hacking and cybercriminals reported by TechCrunch.
Greene followed her tweet about her television with an altered image, Barack Obama’s portrait changed to show the 44th president looking through binoculars from behind lush green foliage.
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner whom Greene supports, has claimed without evidence that Obama authorised spying on him when Trump won the presidency in 2016.
Greene, 49, is a rabble rouser and conspiracy theorist who has risen to power in a House Republican caucus at the mercy of the far right.
Currently pushing for Joe Biden to be impeached before he runs for the presidency again in 2024, Greene has also earned headlines by falling out with Lauren Boebert of Colorado, another far-right gadfly.
In her Sunday tweet, Greene also seemed to suggest someone might try to harm her, writing: “Just for the record: I’m very happy.
“I’m also very healthy and eat well and exercise a lot. I don’t smoke and never have. I don’t take any medications. I am not vaccinated. So I’m not concerned about blood clots, heart conditions, strokes, or anything else.
“Nor do I have anything to hide. I just love my country and the people and know how much they’ve been screwed over by the corrupt people in our government and I’m not willing to be quiet about it, or willing to go along with it.”
Matt Binder, a reporter for Mashable, offered a less sinister explanation for what happened to Greene’s TV.
A neighbour, he suggested, “accidentally tried to screen cast to the wrong TV”.
But, Binder added, Greene’s “first thought is that this means someone is trying to assassinate her”.
