Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has baselessly accused lots of her fellow lawmakers of being “pro-pedophile,” has employed a brand new intern, a 37-year-old man identified for 2 issues: his rise to fame for being poisonous on-line, and his fall from the general public eye after showing to condone pedophilia.
The intern in query: far-right hatemonger Milo Yiannopoulos.
Proper Wing Watch flagged the rent Monday, following up on a sighting earlier this yr of Yiannopoulos alongside Greene at a press convention.
Greene confirmed the rent to The Each day Beast through a spokesperson Monday.
“I've an intern that was raped by a priest as a younger teen, was homosexual, has offended everybody sooner or later, turned his life again to Jesus and Church, and adjusted his life,” Greene advised the Beast. “Nice story!”
Yiannopoulos, a onetime darling of the far proper, is a questionable rent for anybody ― particularly a lawmaker who (like a rising variety of others in her social gathering) claims to be very apprehensive about the specter of predators “grooming” youngsters, and who has accused numerous Democrats and Republicans alike of being “pro-pedophile.”
In 2017, after having made any variety of racist, sexist and transphobic remarks, Yiannopoulos lastly noticed his talking appearances and a profitable e-book deal canceled when a video surfaced during which he appeared to condone sexual relationships between adults and 13-year-old boys.
In that video, Yiannopoulos, who till lately recognized as homosexual, advised a podcast interviewer that “we get hung up on this type of youngster abuse stuff,” and argued that in “a few of these relationships between youthful boys and older males ... these older males assist these younger boys uncover who they're and provides them safety and security and supply them with love.”
Yiannopoulos later mentioned the video had been selectively edited, and condemned pedophilia as “a vile and disgusting crime, maybe the very worst.” Nonetheless, different movies have emerged of him making equally equivocal statements.
In one other video, Yiannopoulos argued that intercourse with a 13-year-old doesn’t represent pedophilia, as a result of “pedophilia is attraction to youngsters who haven't reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to individuals who don’t have functioning intercourse organs but who haven't gone by means of puberty.”
That’s a pointy distinction to Greene’s said beliefs. Earlier on Monday, earlier than the information of her new rent broke, she tweeted: “We should defend youngsters from youngster grooming predators & abusers in each approach potential.”
In associated information, Capitol Hill interns don’t need to go a background test.
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