MTG faces calls to resign after wild statement on Trump shooting: ‘Democrats are the party of pedophiles’

Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing calls to resign on social media after she quickly blamed Democrats for the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, saying Republicans are in a “battle” against the “party of pedophiles.”

Greene has been characteristically outspoken after a gunman identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on a Trump rally in rural Pennsylvania Saturday evening, striking the president’s ear just minutes into his speech.

The Georgia Republican congresswoman baselessly alleged there’s a conspiracy afoot, insisting “Democrats wanted this to happen” and have “wanted Trump gone for years and they’re prepared to do anything to make that happen.”

After attacking Democrats for repeatedly calling Trump a threat to democracy, she soon blasted the party with more extreme rhetoric, calling the country’s polarized politics a “battle.”

“We are in a battle between GOOD and EVIL,” she wrote on X on Sunday.

“The Democrats are the party of pedophiles, murdering the innocent unborn, violence, and bloody, meaningless, endless wars.

“They want to lock up their political opponents, and terrorize innocent Americans who would tell the truth about it.

“The Democrat party is flat out evil, and yesterday they tried to murder President Trump.”

Greene was slammed for her comments, with one X user writing: “Resign in disgrace. It was a Republican.”

“Donald Trump almost got shot dead by a Republican gun nut wielding an AR-15 — and this is how you respond? You’re truly beyond deplorable,” Omar Rivero, the co-founder of Occupy Democrats, told Greene.

“Your rhetoric is REPREHENSIBLE. Sit down,” X user Art Candee wrote, adding in another post that Greene “has been crying about Democrat’s rhetoric for