MTG Claims Slovakian PM Was Shot For Being Anti-Vax

The Daily Beast reports:

Marjorie Taylor Greene wasted no time in suggesting that the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico Wednesday could be linked to his position on COVID vaccines.

The MAGA lawmaker shared a post on X Wednesday which contained a video with English subtitles in which Fico purportedly rails against the treatment of those who opposed vaccination and other government measures to manage the pandemic (The Daily Beast has not verified the translation provided in the clip).

The original post, which was made by an X user who self-describes as a “Conspiracy Realist” claimed that Fico had said that his party “WILL NOT support strengthening the Powers” of the World Health Organization and that multiple studies have confirmed “the scandalous consequences of mass vaccination with experimental untested vaccines.”

Read the full article. As I noted yesterday, moments after the shooting happened, the QAnon cult began spreading this claim on X. As for Fico, who was shot five times, today his condition has been upgraded from critical and he is now expected to survive.

This is great and courageous.

No wonder they shot him.

I pray he makes a full recovery. https://t.co/SKuLUNtypG

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) May 15, 2024